Deathworld

By Harrison, Harry

Book Id: WPLBN0002954969
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File Size: 155.24 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Deathworld
Author:	Harrison, Harry
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Science fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Deathworld
Historic Publication Date:	1960
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Harrison, B. H. (1960). Deathworld. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Harry Harrison (1925 - ) is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravity, abundant predators, and a hostile splinter group of colonists is only the beginning of Jason’s quest to learn the truth about Pyrrus. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Science fiction