Peter Baily: 5 books

Accidental Death by Peter Baily.

Classic short tale by Peter Baily.

Some nice description in a story of the lone survivor of the first warp-drive ship, whose mission was uneventful until they reached this one planet. Then everything that could go wrong, did. An interesting idea that other races may have talents we never dreamed of, and can't recognize until it's too late.

The most dangerous of weapons is the one you don't know is loaded. The wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with ice crystals. All the way up the half-mile precipice it fingered and wrenched away at groaning ice-slabs. It screamed over the top, whirled snow in a dervish dance...