# Exploration Team

By Murray Leinster.

"Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novelette published in 1956. When a Colonial Survey officer arrives on the deadly planet Loren Two, he discovers an unauthorized settler living there with specially-bred Kodiak bears. Together, they must undertake a dangerous trek across hostile terrain to reach an official colony that has mysteriously gone silent. The story won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and has been praised as a model of intelligent adventure on an alien world. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller
- Subjects: Science fiction; Adventure stories; Life on other planets -- Fiction; Space colonies -- Fiction; Bears -- Fiction; Human-animal relationships -- Fiction; Predatory animals -- Fiction

[Read it](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/68730/read)
[Plain text](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/api/books/gutenberg/68730/text)

## Audiobooks of it

- [Exploration Team](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/20424) by Murray Leinster (1 h 42 min, English)

From Project Gutenberg. Public domain in the United States.