Deathworld
FictionScience FictionSpace Opera

Deathworld

by Harry Harrison

Publisher
Creative Media Partners, LLC
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
1963

Overview

Deathworld is Harry Harrison's fast-moving science fiction adventure about survival on a planet that seems violently hostile to human life. Jason dinAlt arrives on Pyrrus, where animals, plants, weather, and everyday conditions appear designed to kill the settlers. Harrison builds tension through action, mystery, and the question of whether humanity's relationship to the world is causing the danger it fears.

The novel works as pulp adventure and ecological puzzle. Deathworld gives readers weapons, risk, strange biology, and a hero forced to think beyond brute force. Readers interested in classic science fiction, planetary survival stories, hostile environments, and compact adventure plots will find a sharp, energetic book with more intelligence than its speed first suggests on the page.

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