"The Snowball Effect" by Katherine MacLean -- a wonderful SF short story from 1952

[lproven]

Taken from Project Gutenberg, cleaned up a little and the punctuation fixed

Comments

[watervole]

Goodness, I'd forgotten that story. I don't know when/where I originally read it, but it's definitely a good one.

[lproven]

Glad you liked it. :¬) I confess it is not as I recall it, but it's still a goodie.