My copy of 'Something Green' appears in Space On My Hands, a collection of Fredric Brown stories. It was first published in 1951.

There's a red sun named Kruger. McGarry's spaceship crashed on its third planet, Kruger III, years ago. He thinks it's been almost five. Ever since then he's been searching for the wreck of another spaceship, hoping he'll find what he needs to repair his. Kruger III has brown plains with brown bushes, and patches of red jungle. The sky is violet.

The lack of human company doesn't distress McGarry nearly as much as the lack of greenery. The only time he gets to see green is when he fires his sol gun. As McGarry keeps telling Dorothy, the five-limbed creature who rides his shoulder, they're going to make it back to Earth and all its lovely green.

McGarry's still searching when he attracts the attention of the passing of a Space Patrol member, Lieutenant Archer... ( )