ARCTURUS TIMES THREE
By JACK SHARKEY
Illustrated by SCHELLING
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Galaxy Magazine October 1961.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
A man who lived three lives? A piker! Jerry
Norcriss lived hundreds—all over the Galaxy!
ZOOLOGY 2097
Trial-and-error familiarization with new life-forms is dangerously impractical on a far planet, where the representation of Earth men may be a solitary five-man crew. The loss of even a single man constitutes, in effect, obliteration of one-fifth of that planet's Earth-population. This is the "why" of the Space Zoologist.