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Search the Sky
Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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Ross stood on the traders’ ramp, overlooking the Yards, and the word kept bobbing to the top of his mind.
Decay.
About all of Halsey’s Planet there was the imperceptible reek of decay. The clean, big, bustling, efficient spaceport only made the sensation stronger. From where he stood on the height of the Ramp, he could see the Yards, the spires of Halsey City ten kilometers away—and the tumbledown gray acres of Ghost Town between.
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