Ice Crown

Ice Crown by Andre Norton

A tale of the far future.  The planet Clio was the subject of an experiment by the centuries ago Psychocrats, seeded with people conditioned to develop the history they wanted, and carefully sealed since its discovery, to protect its inhabitants from the trauma of realizing that.  But there appear to be Forerunner artifacts on the planet, so a carefully secret mission goes to attempt to retrieve them.

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the world is flat, and that is that

Once upon a time, at an SF convention panel, a writer talked about the lines she put into her fantasy map to show the curvature of the world, and how a cartographer loved her for it because so many writers have maps like the world is flat.

Whereupon my muse, impish soul, whispered that what a silly goose he was, assuming that the world is not flat.

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