Transcriber's note:
This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction, January 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
NAUDSONCE
Bishop Berkeley's famous question
about the sound of a falling tree
may have no standing in Science.
But there is a highly interesting
question about "sound" that Science
needs to consider....
BY H. BEAM PIPER
ILLUSTRATED BY MOREY
The sun warmed Mark Howell's back pleasantly. Underfoot, the mosslike stuff was soft and yielding, and there was a fragrance in the air unlike anything he had ever smelled. He was going to like this planet; he knew it. The question was, how would it, and its people, like him? He watched the little figures advancing across the fields from the mound, with the village out of sight on the other end of it and the combat-car circling lazily on contragravity above.
Major Luis Gofredo, the Marine officer, spoke without lowering his binoculars: