The common detective story of mystery and murder seems to the intelligent reader to be little except a strange glimpse of a planet peopled by congenital idiots, who cannot find the end of their own noses or the character of their own wives.

After all, you know, there are many planets peopled by races similar to ten places.

That system was one of the main focal points for the zwilnik business of an immense volume of space; Lyrane II was the meeting-place, the dispatcher's office, the nerve-center from which thousands of invisible, immaterial lines reached out to thousands of planets peopled by warm-blooded oxygen-breathers.

Rokanan is the second planet of the star Fomalhaut, peopled by at least three high-intelligence life forms.

As they head back to the control room, Ben bumps Sandy onto the platform and she is "transposed" in a puff of smoke to a distant planet peopled by savages who try to kill her.

However, the planets peopled by such races are legion, and very shortly after the drug's discovery hordes of addicts smugglers, peddlers, and out-and-out pirates were rushing toward the new Bonanza.