Wheelworld (original 1981; edition 1981)

by Harry Harrison

Series: To the Stars (2)

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Too dangerous to live. Too valuable to kill. Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families. Then disaster. One year the ships do not come; starvation threatens Halvmork. Jan rallies the people for their own survival, and guides them on a perilous trek across half a planet. Battling heat and savage creatures, earthquakes and volcanoes, fighting the violence and treachery of the Families, Jan leads the people of Wheelworld to their new destiny.… (more)

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Member:	nigelbakker
Title:	Wheelworld
Authors:	Harry Harrison
Info:	Bantam Books (1981), Paperback, 192 pages
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I read this in high school as a pocket book version. I was fascinated by the female life-like androids. Lol (

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nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |

Picks up with our protagonist from Homeworld being exiled to another planet that is being used to produce food for the empire. On this planet Summer only comes every four years but when it does, it burns everything, causing the colonists to have to make a global convoy to the other hemisphere. This is the year to move but there is one problem; the ships haven't come yet. It is up to Jan, the brilliant engineer and strategist, to get them there safely.

I like these tight little 200 page sci-fi novels that I can read in an afternoon. Whereas the last novel was a little predictable, this one read more like a Doug McClure movie. It gains a half star on it's predecessor because of some added tension that the previous book didn't have. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Harry Harrison	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Gudynas, Peter	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Larkin, Bob	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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To the Stars (2)

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The sun had set four years ago and had not risen since.

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Too dangerous to live. Too valuable to kill. Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families. Then disaster. One year the ships do not come; starvation threatens Halvmork. Jan rallies the people for their own survival, and guides them on a perilous trek across half a planet. Battling heat and savage creatures, earthquakes and volcanoes, fighting the violence and treachery of the Families, Jan leads the people of Wheelworld to their new destiny.

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Published in 1981 by Granada, this 188 page paperback is the second volume in Harry Harrison's 'To The Stars' triology. Storyline:An unforgiving planet where the sun is about to rise and will not set for another four years; where an ancient peasant hierarchy still rules a society equipped with the highest technology; where the people are as dependent on visiting ships as they are on the very air that they breathe; home for some, but for Jan Kulozik it is an eternal prison. And when the ships don't come, Jan finds himself at the centre of an epic struggle for power...and survival. Extract: Jan turned to face them. 'I am going to tell you some facts, facts you cannot argue with. First, the ships are late. Four weeks late. In all the years, the ships have been coming they have never been this late...

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