Transcription: MALCHER'S FIRE by Jack L. Chalker. 1. Scientists die for love. In twenty years of exploring strange worlds and seeking out some kind of indication that possibly humanity wasn't alone, Randy Keeson had never found any signs of any alien civilizations, past, present or future. But she had found a number of human ones. Perhaps it was because only human beings were both adaptable enough and insane enough to settle even the armpits of the universe that they were surviving at all. This was a particularly ugly place, all gray and white, with constant winds whipping a fine sand against any exposed par ...
