Iceworld

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Sallman Ken, is an alien schoolteacher, who finds himself involved in an interstellar narcotics ring that is attempting to obtain quantities of an illegal drug from a world so cold that it is impossible to land there. He, with the help of 2 young savages, solves the scientific problem of landing and surviving on the freezing planet and uncovers the secret of the precious drug. First published in 3 parts in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1951.