Polymath aka Castaway's World Author:John Brunner When a ship filled with refugees from a cosmic catastrophe crash-landed on an unmapped world, their outlook was precarious. Their ship was lost, salvage had been minor, and everything came to depend on one bright young man accidentally among them. — He was a trainee planet-builder -- a polymath. It would have been his job to foresee all the probl... more »ems necessary to set up a safe home for humanity. But the problem was that he was a mere student -- and the he had been studying the wrong planet.« less