 In the beginning, how does the author try to make you feel about this world?
They were something more—and something less—they were, in short, humanity's hopes for survival! [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, September 1961. Earth couldn't turn out enough starmen in the schools, so promising kids were being shipped out for training as cadets on their twelfth birthday. The two he'd drawn, Kaufman and Pinelli, seemed to be totally devoid of any sense of caution. Earth had ordered him to detour here, after leaving his load of deep-sleep stored colonists on Official World 71, to check on any sign of Hennessy. There was a momentary halt, and then the leader lifted one arm, as if motioning the others forward.
 like it's a place unworthy of going to
 skeptical but optimistic  curious and interested  like it's uninhabited and scary  like it's a place unworthy of going to