Contagion

On the planet Minos, perfection has a price. Settlers arrive expecting paradise and find something far stranger: a world where the food doesn't taste quite right, and the colonists are slowly... changing. But the transformation isn't deadly. It's something far more unsettling. It's progress. MacLean's 1950 masterpiece follows the colonists as they grapple with what humanity becomes when it adapts to a new world, and how fear of the unfamiliar masquerades as disease. The contagion at the heart of this novella isn't spreading sickness. It's evolving consciousness, and the healthy are terrified of it.