Green World

A young planet ten million years old should be geological wasteland. Instead, Veridis teems with complex life that defies every law of evolution. When a team of specialists arrives to solve this cosmic anomaly, they find a world of impossible biology, where flora and fauna treat humans as either prey or puzzle. The deeper they dig, the stranger it gets. What hidden force has accelerated life on this green world beyond all natural explanation? And why does the planet seem to be watching them? This is Hal Clement at his finest: rigorous, inventive, and relentlessly curious. Green World asks what happens when scientists encounter something genuinely beyond their understanding and refuse to stop asking questions. It's a novel that treats intelligence as the highest virtue and curiosity as salvation.