First Cycle Author:H. Beam Piper When a wandering red dwarf star enters an established solar system, it splits a giant planet in half and creates two sister planets upon both of which intelligent life evolves. One planet gets most of the water, and its humanoids evolve to be religious, hierarchical, socialistic, and sneaky. The other world is dry, and its humanoids evolve to be... more » atheistic (to the point of having no concept of gods), individualistic, capitalistic, and honest. Once contact is established, can two such different species get along, and if not, then what will be the cost?« less