Four Day Planet [and] Lone Star Planet

by H. Beam Piper, John J. McGuire (Author)

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"Four-Day Planet" is set on a planet called Fenris, where extremes in climate have resulted in an extremely small population with very few off-world contacts. The protagonist is a 17-year-old reporter who fights to overturn the corrupt 'government' and coercive mercantilist monopoly on 'tallow-wax', the sole export from Fenris. "Lone Star Planet" is set on New Texas, where everything from cows to nuts is prefixed. Silk, the unwilling, banished replacement for the Solar League's former show more ambassador, must solve the murder and stave off an anticipated invasion by the Srauff, a canine alien race, while preventing his own assassination on a planet where the killing of politicians is acceptable, if they "had it coming." show less

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Canonical title
Four Day Planet [and] Lone Star Planet
Original publication date
1958 (A Planet for Texans, Lone Star Planet) (A Planet for Texans, Lone Star Planet); 1961 (Four-Day Planet) (Four-Day Planet); 1979-04 (omnibus) (omnibus)
People/Characters
Leo Belsher; Ralph Boyd (Port Sandor Times); Walter Boyd (Port Sandor Times); Oscar Fujisawa; Morton Hallstock (Mayor of Port Sandor); Jan Hartzenbosch (Professor) (show all 12); Joe Kivelson (skipper of the Javelin); Tom Kivelson; Adolf Lautier; Glenn Murrell; Steve Ravick (Hunters' Co-operative); Bish Ware
Important places
Port Sandor, Fenris; New Austin, Sam Houston Continent, New Texas (Capella IV)
Dedication
For Betty and Vall, with loving remembrance
First words
I went through the gateway, towing my equipment in a contragravity hamper over my head. (Four-day planet)
They started giving me the business as soon as I came through the door into the Secretary's outer office. (Lone Star planet)
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But to the story of how the hunters got an honest co-operative and Fenris got an honest government, and Bish Ware got Anton Garrit the slaver, I can write
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* Ed. note: "The end". (Four-day planet)
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Security Coördinator scrawled a note comprehensible only to himself... (Lone Star planet)
Disambiguation notice
FOUR-DAY PLANET AND LONE STAR PLANET is an omnibus edition of FOUR-DAY PLANET and of A PLANET FOR TEXANS. A PLANET FOR TEXANS is also known as LONE STAR PLANET.

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Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PS3566 .I59Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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