Exploration Team
| "Exploration Team" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Novelette by Murray Leinster | |||
Cover art by Ed Emshwiller | |||
| Illustrator | Ed Emshwiller | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre | Science fiction novelette | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | Astounding Science Fiction | ||
| Publication type | Periodical | ||
| Publisher | Street & Smith | ||
| Media type | Print (Magazine) | ||
| Publication date | March 1956 | ||
| Pages | 42 | ||
| Award | Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1956) | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Series | Colonial Survey | ||
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"Exploration Team" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Murray Leinster, originally published in the March 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1956.
Writing in 1998, Gardner Dozois described "Exploration Team" as "taut, suspenseful and scary". He went on to note that it is "practically the model of how to write an intricate and intelligent adventure set on an alien world".
"Exploration Team" is one of the works in Leinster's "Colonial Survey" series. It is also one of the four novelettes that were re-written and included in Leinster's fix-up novel Colonial Survey, where it appears as a chapter titled "Combat Team".