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Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it ... it was an awfully good approximation!Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
Deathworld, by Harry Harrison - Published on: 2015-10-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .39" w x 8.50" l, .91 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 170 pages
Deathworld, by Harry Harrison About the Author Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Nice piece of mid-century Sci Fi adventure By Rebecca Menes I started this story in an old issue of Astounding Stories that was kicking around - and was very happy to find the rest of it on Kindle. A quick read, really a novella. A solid page turner with lots of action, fun plot twists, and a satisfactory ending. If you like old Heinlein's I think you will like this.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful. It's Back... By Claire Connelly I read and re-read my original paperback containing the three novels until it was tattered and torn. I recently received a shipment containing many of my old books, including this one. When I saw its condition, I wanted to replace it, but found it was out of print. Then I stumbled on a copy of this edition in a specialty bookstore and had to have it.The books are classics -- the main character, Jason dinAlt, is a gambler and a scoundrel, with an ability to influence luck in his favor. He's recruited to help raise money for the inhabitants of Pyrrus, and has to follow the girl sent to arrange the deal to see the place for himself.In the second book, dinAlt is kidnapped by a self-righteous man angry at his home planet's making dinAlt a hero, inspiring others to gamble. He plans to take dinAlt back to face trial, but things go awry and they both end up enslaved on a primitive desert world. DinAlt's luck and knowledge allow him to survive.In the third and final book, many of the key people from Pyrrus join dinAlt in taming other planets. Their first assignment is a tough one, a planet of fierce nomadic warriors. DinAlt must learn their ways in order to defeat them.This volume also includes "The Mothballed Spaceship", a short story featuring dinAlt and other Pyrrans not included in the original volume.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. An entertaining yarn from one of the best Golden Age authors By Michael K. Smith This was Harry Harrison's first novel and I can remember reading it in high school, when it originally appeared in ASTOUNDING (which is also why it's rather short for a novel). It was popular enough to engender a couple of sequels, though most fans probably identify Harry first with the "Stainless Steel Rat" series.It's interesting, by the way, to read a science fiction novel written fifty years ago (and a bit appalling to realize that's how long it's been). For one thing, it always surprises me that virtually no SF author of that time predicted computers or any other form of digital electronics, and their idea of miniaturization was laughable by today's standards. The starship pilots do the math for plotting a hyperspace jump in their heads, assisted by a calculator. (Writing a decade earlier, Heinlein's pilots used slide rules.) You would expect folks like that to be experienced predictors, but it almost never happened.Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler with a knack for winning far more often than he loses -- with the assistance of an undependable psi talent. He takes on a commission from a representative of the planet Pyrrus to build a very large take into a huge sum at the casino on another world, which he duly accomplishes. Pyrrus, he's told is the deadliest world ever to be colonized by humans and the money is crucial to its survival. Jason has basically run out of challenges in his life and after hearing this description, he decides to go and take a look for himself. And Pyrrus certainly lives up to its reputation: Every living thing there, from the microorganisms and the grass on up, seems intent on killing the colonists. And if the fauna and flora don't do you in, the tectonics and the climate will. Jason has to go through extensive survival schooling with the local five-year-olds before he can even go outdoors. And even those kids are armed and deadly. (Another comment: The super-sidearms they all carry -- or wear, actually -- apparently fire cartridges. Since everyone must get off perhaps a hundred shots per day, they must be reloading all the time. Why didn't the author give them some sort of energy-beam weapon? Today, of course, it would be long-charge lasers.) This extremely hostile environment also means everyone is fixated on survival, with no energy left over for creativity or any other ordinary human impulse, which doesn't do much for Jason's love lifeIn any case, that's just the set-up. There's a mystery about Pyrrus that carries the plot, and which Jason sets out to investigate. The planet, which survives economically by mining and exporting radioactive ores, and which has been settled for three centuries, still has only a single modest settlement, plus a few outlying mining camps. Not only is the city's population not expanding, it's actually contracting; the Pyrrans are slowly losing their battle with the planet. Moreover, the struggle seems to be centered on the only large settlement, and has been ever since the first colonists' arrival. There are even communities of "grubbers," who trade food to the city for hardware, who actually have reached a harmonious balance with the native life-forms. So what's going on here? I won't give away the maguffin, which was original for it's time, except to note that Jason's psychic abilities will prove useful. Younger readers, whose knowledge of science fiction is mostly 21st-century, really ought to go back and discover some of the Golden Age authors, of whom Harry Harrison is one of the most entertaining.
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