Summary
In a Marsport bar, the narrator meets a gaunt spaceman in rope-soled espadrilles who asks for zwiff and begins telling a strange hard-luck story. The tale shifts to a repair stop on a small, dense planetoid with breathable atmosphere, glittering soil, and metallic, crystal-like trees. As the account continues, the planetoid seems increasingly uncanny, and the speaker reflects on a life that is not soft and wet but something harder and stranger beyond human experience.
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