Zen by Jerome BixBy

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Zen is a short story written by Jerome BixBy. The twenty-nine of us were E.T.I. Team 17, whose assignment was the asteroids. We were four years and three months out of Terra, and we’d reached Vesta right on schedule. Ten minutes after landing, we had known that the clod was part of the crust of Planet X — or Sorn, to give it its right name — one of the few such parts that hadn’t been blown clean out of the Solar System.