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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about WOLF, IV-THE, PLANET with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Rocket To Limbo'
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about WOLF, IV-THE, PLANET with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction.
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conversations.value: Rocket to Limbo: On the afternoon of 2008 Mar 03 the Star Ship Argonaut lifted off Earth and set course on the Long Passage to Alpha Centauri.\nThe builders intended that the crew establish a colony on one of Alpha Centauri's planets and then bring Argonaut back to Earth.\nThe ship never returned and no trace of her has ever been found.\nIn the year 2351 Lars Heldrigsson joins the crew of the Star Ship Ganymede, which is scheduled to fly to Vega III.\nOnce the ship has lifted herself into space Lars and the other 21 crewmen discover that the ship is actually going to the planet Wolf IV to search for the lost Star Ship Planetfall.\nSuch a thing is unprecedented and even more disturbing is the presence of fusion bombs in the ship's hold.\nAngry at being effectively shanghaied onto a dangerous mission, some of the men attempt to take the ship.\nThe mutiny fails and, threatened with abandonment in interstellar space, the mutineers agree to continue on the mission.\nWith no other option available to them, the men make the arduous climb to the wreck, hoping to find food, generators to recharge the batteries in their heater suits, and possibly a means of communicating with Earth.\nBut the wreck is not the Planetfall: it is the Argonaut.\nThe men's last, faint hope now is to find the city that the scout thought he saw in the next valley.\nThe men trudge onward, over the pass, and down into the valley.\nThe fog lifts and the men see a three-dimensional kaleidoscope, filled with people, floating several hundred feet above a meadow.\nLars is taken into the city and meets up with Peter Bingham, Ganymede's other Officer-in-Training.\nLars and Peter are treated as honored guests by the City-people, who possess the power of teledynamics, the ability to change the forms of matter and energy with a thought.\nMeanwhile Planetfall and Ganymede are kept in storage and their crews kept in deep sleep.\nThe City-people subject Lars and Peter to some kind of training but cannot explain what it is meant to accomplish.\nThen suddenly the men discover that they are being trained to develop their own teledynamic abilities and that the training has succeeded.\nThe City-people, the descendants of the babies that aliens found in the wreck of the Argonaut, free the other men and allow them to take their ships back to Earth, with Lars and Peter as ambassadors of a new order of Reality.\nAt the end of the story Lars and Peter break the deadlock in the plot by developing the latent psychic powers that the City-people had been nurturing in them.\nIn this feature the story resembles a similar breaking of the story's deadlock found in The Angry Espers by Lloyd Biggle, Jr, in which an Earthman stranded on a strange planet must develop his latent psychic abilities in order to deal with the people around him.
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
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conversations.value: \nThe builders intended that the crew establish a colony on one of Alpha Centauri's planets and then bring Argonaut back to Earth.\nThe ship never returned and no trace of her has ever been found.\nIn the year 2351 Lars Heldrigsson joins the crew of the Star Ship Ganymede, which is scheduled to fly to Vega III.\nOnce the ship has lifted herself into space Lars and the other 21 crewmen discover that the ship is actually going to the planet Wolf IV to search for the lost Star Ship Planetfall.\nSuch a thing is unprecedented and even more disturbing is the presence of fusion bombs in the ship's hold.\nAngry at being effectively shanghaied onto a dangerous mission, some of the men attempt to take the ship.\nThe mutiny fails and, threatened with abandonment in interstellar space, the mutineers agree to continue on the mission.\nWith no other option available to them, the men make the arduous climb to the wreck, hoping to find food, generators to recharge the batteries in their heater suits, and possibly a means of communicating with Earth.\nBut the wreck is not the Planetfall: it is the Argonaut.\nThe men's last, faint hope now is to find the city that the scout thought he saw in the next valley.\nThe men trudge onward, over the pass, and down into the valley.\nThe fog lifts and the men see a three-dimensional kaleidoscope, filled with people, floating several hundred feet above a meadow.\nLars is taken into the city and meets up with Peter Bingham, Ganymede's other Officer-in-Training.\nLars and Peter are treated as honored guests by the City-people, who possess the power of teledynamics, the ability to change the forms of matter and energy with a thought.\nMeanwhile Planetfall and Ganymede are kept in storage and their crews kept in deep sleep.\nThe City-people subject Lars and Peter to some kind of training but cannot explain what it is meant to accomplish.\nThen suddenly the men discover that they are being trained to develop their own teledynamic abilities and that the training has succeeded.\nThe City-people, the descendants of the babies that aliens found in the wreck of the Argonaut, free the other men and allow them to take their ships back to Earth, with Lars and Peter as ambassadors of a new order of Reality.\nAt the end of the story Lars and Peter break the deadlock in the plot by developing the latent psychic powers that the City-people had been nurturing in them.\nIn this feature the story resembles a similar breaking of the story's deadlock found in The Angry Espers by Lloyd Biggle, Jr, in which an Earthman stranded on a strange planet must develop his latent psychic abilities in order to deal with the people around him.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: Rocket to Limbo
  They hit a stable orbit 500 miles out from the planet and started Schedule I rolling like a well-oiled precision robot. Ever present in the black space-void, the huge orange sun that was the star Wolf glared balefully at them, like an angry giant, half-slumbering, half-aware that intruders were near. Below them was the fourth planet, a dim gray sphere that lay featureless and silent in its cradle of blackness, reflecting the light of its sun in orange-grayness sometimes, blotting out the stars in blackness at other times. When the planet eclipsed the sun the lead-gray color became pit-black. Only occasionally was there a break in its gray blanket, allowing a glimpse of surface beneath.
  Kennedy's cameras ground continuously, the little man's face buried for hours at a time in the view box of the telescopic scanner as Commander Fox took a place beside him, trying to penetrate, to find any detail, any suggestion of the nature of the planet.
  Fox scratched his jaw. "A thought, at that. I don't think so. The more we know before we're spotted the better."
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: He whirled on Lars and Lambert. "What are you doing just standing there? Get those two men. Carry them, drag them, I don't care what, but get moving. We're going to find that ship if we have to walk every mile of this miserable planet."
  They moved, a sorry beaten line, past the wrecked ship, on up the snowfield toward the low saddle of the pass before them. They didn't care what was beyond it now. All they cared was to get it over, to cross beyond, somehow. The wind was whipping the snow into a blizzard now, and darkness was falling rapidly; the rocks were becoming hazy and indistinct, even the expanse of white above and beyond grew gray, grayer. Lars stopped once and looked back, peering through the gloom to see the fantastic wreck they had left behind them, but he could see nothing but a wall of white.
  Dawn came silent and windless and gray. It was still cold, and there was no food, but the men felt at least half alive as light began to show grayly from over the pass.
  They had thrown caution to the winds when they had reached that sheltering place, and built up a huge fire, warming themselves, drying their underclothes, drawing some element of life and hope from the yellow flames. And then they had slept, for the first time in days. Fox, Lorry, Lambert and Lars had split watches while the others slept like the rocks they were sleeping on. When Lars' turn came, he hardly felt the hard ground beneath him before he was in oblivion.
  But with morning came some degree of orientation. They could not see the valley below them except for a few yards of gray slope downward because of the fog, but they knew that this was the valley where Kennedy had seen, or thought he had seen a city. A city that human hands could not have made, Kennedy had said. It sobered their faces as they warmed themselves around the refurbished fire.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about hiding, camping.
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conversations.value: He whirled on Lars and Lambert. "What are you doing just standing there? Get those two men. Carry them, drag them, I don't care what, but get moving. We're going to find that ship if we have to walk every mile of this miserable planet. "
  They moved, a sorry beaten line, past the wrecked ship, on up the snowfield toward the low saddle of the pass before them. They didn't care what was beyond it now. All they cared was to get it over, to cross beyond, somehow. The wind was whipping the snow into a blizzard now, and darkness was falling rapidly; the rocks were becoming hazy and indistinct, even the expanse of white above and beyond grew gray, grayer. Lars stopped once and looked back, peering through the gloom to see the fantastic wreck they had left behind them, but he could see nothing but a wall of white. 
  Dawn came silent and windless and gray. The snow had stopped, and a wall of fog had descended, hiding all but the first lines of trees below the camping place. It was still cold, and there was no food, but the men felt at least half alive as light began to show grayly from over the pass. 
  They had thrown caution to the winds when they had reached that sheltering place, and built up a huge fire, warming themselves, drying their underclothes, drawing some element of life and hope from the yellow flames. And then they had slept, for the first time in days. Fox, Lorry, Lambert and Lars had split watches while the others slept like the rocks they were sleeping on. When Lars' turn came, he hardly felt the hard ground beneath him before he was in oblivion. 
  But with morning came some degree of orientation. They could not see the valley below them except for a few yards of gray slope downward because of the fog, but they knew that this was the valley where Kennedy had seen, or thought he had seen a city. A city that human hands could not have made, Kennedy had said. It sobered their faces as they warmed themselves around the refurbished fire.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'The Commander listened silently as the story unfolded'.
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conversations.value: The Commander listened silently as the story unfolded. At last he said, "Then this Strength is extra-sensory power."
  Lars shrugged. "Yes and no. They left Wolf IV when their work here was done This was not their native home. But they left something else behind."
  And now, returning, they carried a new heritage for Earthmen. There would be many ships, and many men, before they learned to use the Strength, but they would learn it.
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