Different Stuff: A 1989 trip to the future

Editor’s Note: The Cibolo Center for Conservation and the Boerne community have experienced significant growth in recent years.

In the spirit of honoring those who paved the way, please enjoy this heritage article, a short story Bill Zaner, originally published in the Boerne Star in August 1989.

The two anthropologists journeyed through space to this small, seemingly lifeless planet to do what they’d done on a dozen other worlds — dig through the outer crust, take core samples, and try to determine what kinds, if any, of life forms had existed here.