A friend asks:
There's some Golden Age sci-fi story where some planet has gems that fall in the rain and they're worthless there but scooped up and sold to idiot off-worlders.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
asked Feb 23, 2022 at 19:04
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3Possibly the same question as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168074/… or scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34812/…– DavidWCommented Feb 23, 2022 at 19:09
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Friend says no. "Yeah, that's not it. It had two kids, playing outside. They nearly get caught in the diamond rain and one of them gets a cut from one of the shards."– Mustapha MondCommented Feb 23, 2022 at 20:22
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Both of those links feature kids playing outside.– Organic MarbleCommented Feb 24, 2022 at 0:06
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Oh. It's raining again.– Paul D. WaiteCommented Feb 24, 2022 at 12:25
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Could be "Trillions" by Nicholas Fisk, published in 1971? From Wikipedia:
A mysterious shower of tiny crystals fall all over Earth. No-one knows where they came from, or what their purpose is, but they certainly behave strangely. Bonding together they mimic strange, and sometimes threatening, shapes. A boy with a microscope is just as likely to find out the answers as all the scientific pundits
There is quite a nice summary here.
The main characters are all children and are initially caught in the first shower but I don't recall if any are injured.
But the planet is just Earth and they are not sold to off-worlders (there are no other inhabited planets) although one of the children does have an out-of-body experience to another planet.
I think most of Fisk's work would be considered as for children or young adults - certainly that was the age I read this.
