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Loading... The Forgotten Planet (1954)by Murray Leinster
   Top Five Books of 2023 (438) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) nx74defiant | Mar 8, 2023 |  On the surface it qualifies as pure adventure, and without the clunky sophomoric (as-if teen-imagined) view of romance that used to dominate pulp sf. (You know: pulchritudinous blonde daughter of a bespectacled scientist thrown together with a teen athlete boy or a nerd.) But it is rigorously worked out from a simple premise, and is as “hard science” as this sort of thing can be. It is, in fact, the best example of a fix-up that I can think of, for it is seamless in its construction. Well, not exactly, I guess: the prologue and epilogue are the most obvious fix-up parts, a tad more elegantly written than the crisply narrated body of the text. But that’s apt, too. It really is impressive. And it is an apparent inspiration for Brian Aldiss’s masterwork, “Hothouse.” A very few typos in this edition. I have another, early Ace edition of this book, but cannot find it. When I find it I’ll sell one of them. Or both? I hate to get rid of books I may need to refer to again. (  ) wirkman | Oct 1, 2022 | Complete review at: The Great Gnome Press Science Fiction Odyssey, and a close-up examination of the book itself. ( ) raisey | Feb 10, 2010 | But there was no life on it. No animals roamed its continents. No vegetation grew from its rocks. Not even bacteria struggled with its stones to turn them into soil. So there was no soil. Rock and stones and gravel and even sand—yes. But no soil in which any vegetation could grow. No living thing, however small, swam in its oceans, so there was not even mud on its ocean-bottoms. It was one of that disappointing vast majority of worlds which turned up when the Galaxy was first explored. People couldn't live on it because nothing had lived there before. ( ) amzmchaichun | Jul 19, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Forgotten Planet. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Murray Leinster, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Forgotten Planet in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Forgotten Planet: Look inside the book: The human beings had forgotten not only their ancestors ship, but very nearly everything their ancestors had brought to this world: the use of metals, the existence of fire, and even the fact that there was such a thing as sunshine. ...Sitting dismally upon his fungus raft, floating in midstream, an incongruous figure of pink skin and luridly-tinted loin-cloth, with a greasy dead fish beside him, he was filled with a panicky anguish because the river carried him away from the one girl of his tiny tribe whose glances roused a commotion in his breast. About Murray Leinster, the Author: When the pulp magazines began to diversify into particular genres in the 1920s, Leinster followed suit, selling jungle stories to Danger Trails, westerns to West and Cowboy Stories, detective stories to Black Mask and Mystery Stories, horror stories to Weird Tales, and even romance stories to Love Story Magazine under the pen name Louisa Carter Lee. Leinsters first science fiction story, The Runaway Skyscraper, appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy, and was reprinted in the June 1926 issue of Hugo Gernsbacks first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. No library descriptions found. |
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