# Search the Sky — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl.

- [I Decay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/i.md): Ross, a trader on Halsey's Planet, is troubled by a pervasive sense of decay as he walks through the growing Ghost Town to work. He grapples with a decision to quit his monotonous job at the Oldham Trading Corporation. D
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/ii.md): Ross reflects on his stagnant life on Halsey's Planet, considering a purser's job to escape but finding no real hope. He attends an auction for Oldham Trading, then visits a longliner crew whose members are naked, cheerf
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/iii.md): Marconi wakes Ross and offers him a space job bigger than being a purser. They drive through Ghost Town to the spaceport, where Marconi leads Ross to the longliner. Inside, Marconi brings Ross to Haarland, who reveals th
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/iv.md): Ross completes his training under Haarland on the Wesley Drive and the F.T.L. ship, then receives a final briefing. Haarland reveals the mission's deeper purpose: to investigate a mysterious genetic formula passed down b
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/v.md): Ross lands on Gemser, expecting a civilized world, but is immediately captured and subjected to a bizarre, infantilizing society where elders rule through electric shock rods. He is placed in a 'Junior Unit' with others 

> 9 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=search_the_sky_se_1592kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [Holiday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Landing on Earth and Encounter with the Joneses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/search_the_sky_se/chapters/xiv.md)

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