“Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.”

—  James Nicoll

ibid.: About Genellan: Planetfall by Scott Gier:
2000s

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Canadian fiction reviewer 1961

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