Planet of the Damned eBook Harry Harrison
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Planet of the Damned is a 1962 novel by American science fiction writer Harry Harrison. It was serialised in 1961 under the title Sense of Obligation and published under that name in 1967. It was nominated for the Hugo Award. Brion Brandd lives on the planet Anvhar which due to an elliptical orbit experiences a year with a long cold winter and a short hot summer to which the population have become adapted. To avoid social problems during the winter period Anvhar has initiated a planet wide series of mental and physical games called the Twenties. The novel starts with Brandd winning the Twenties. As he recovers from the games Brandd meets Ihjel, a previous winner of the Twenties, who asks him to join a mission on the desert planet of Dis. The ruling class of Dis, the magter, have threatened to transport cobalt bombs onto a neighbouring planet if they refuse to surrender. As a result the planet is being blockaded and under threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike. Brandd travels to Dis with Ihjel and a scientist from Earth called Lea but on arrival the trio are attacked and Ihjel is killed. After encounters with the local population and other humans Brandd starts to put together the reason for the magter's seemingly suicidal aggression. Brandd learns that most life on Dis survives the extremes of the planet by using symbiosis. The magter though have been infected by a parasite that destroys the higher functions of their brains. Eventually Brandd locates the cobalt bombs and disables the transmission mechanism allowing him to return home.
Planet of the Damned eBook Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison's Deathworld is a 1960 sci-fi classic, nominated for a Hugo. The story is a straight up action packed thriller of a planet that appears intent on killing its human inhabitants. An adventurer with a flair for gambling due to psionic powers assists its leader with acquiring more weapons for their never ending battle with both fauna and flora that continuously mutates to ever deadlier forms that are constantly attacking the small colony. The adventurer checks out the place and finds a dwindling community that is so focused on exterminating nature that they can't even remember how they arrived on the planet generations ago. Eventually, he goes native and finds others living under better conditions and slowly surmises the basis for the state of affairs which the groups have little interest in pursuing.While space travel is routine, biological mutation and evolution is front and center. Psionic abilities also play a prominent role. Given the global state of affairs at the time of its publication, the planet is clearly a metaphor for the single-minded stubbornness of large groups (be they colonists or whole governments) to pursue self-destructive paths with expectations of total annihilation of an equally matched enemy, never questioning the overall strategy and constantly upping tactical approaches. Not surprisingly, the story transcends its time and resonates even today.
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Planet of the Damned eBook Harry Harrison Reviews
I read this book when it first came out over 50 years ago. I am ashamed to say that I probably wouldn't have tried it if it had cost anything, but, on reflection, I think it has to hold its place in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. (If there ever is such a thing.)
Deathworld was Harry Harrison's first novel. Previously, he had been an illustrator. Re-reading the book, I at first felt childish. "This beginning is silly and contrived," I thought. Well, of course it was. Jason DiNalt is an "Interstellar Gambler" and plans on playing at tables that are new to him. His edge is a keenly developed psi talent for precognition or some such ability that allows him to win. It seems that he has been noticed by the Ambassador of the planet Pyrrus (Deathworld) and is recruited to come to its aid. DiNalt accepts a large stake to earn house-breaking winnings. He accomplishes this, then he and the Pyrran shoot their way off the planet and take off for Pyrrus.
After they land, DiNalt decides to stay and is told he must go through the equivalent of Pyrran nursery school, since the native life forms are so dangerous and that he will have no chance of survival without training and conditioning. It seems that everything close to the capital city is malevolently dangerous, this on top of Pyrrus having one of the most un-inviting physical environments in the universe. (Gravity is twice as high so he weighs twice as much. Temperature goes to extremes--both of them--on any given day, etc.)
About the time Jason was to emerge from the nursery the short book (really more of a novella) had captured me and I was unable to even let my revert to screen-saver until I finished it, AND I KNEW AND REMEMBERED THE END.
It wasn't the best science fiction piece of all time. For true interest, it's hard to propose anything over Dune, and for sheer prose power, I nominate William Miller's "A Canticle for Liebowitz" (not available on and out of print as well). However, it's hard to picture anything you might want to read involving you more. I'm sure I'll read it again sometime in the next fifty years!
DEATHWORLD was the favorite book, and Harry Harrison the favorite author, of a friend of mine when I was in college. Somehow I never got around to reading this book, or anything else by this author until now. While on a long flight with a long flight interludes at the airport, I went into a binge of reading old, public domain science fiction. It made what was usually boring a memorable part of my trip. I can’t say that Harrison is now one of my favorite science fiction authors, but I enjoyed this book. Kerk, from Deathworld, hires a PSI-empowered gambler, Jason, to earn money for him so he can buy munitions. He needs these munitions to fight the wildlife, both flora and fauna, on his home world. Intrigued by the notion of such a planet, and the degree of strength of the people who inhabit the planet, Jason goes back with Kerk to see if he can become tough enough to adapt to life where an entire planet is at war with the colonists. The book comes to an intelligent and satisfactory conclusion.
Harry Harrison's Deathworld is a 1960 sci-fi classic, nominated for a Hugo. The story is a straight up action packed thriller of a planet that appears intent on killing its human inhabitants. An adventurer with a flair for gambling due to psionic powers assists its leader with acquiring more weapons for their never ending battle with both fauna and flora that continuously mutates to ever deadlier forms that are constantly attacking the small colony. The adventurer checks out the place and finds a dwindling community that is so focused on exterminating nature that they can't even remember how they arrived on the planet generations ago. Eventually, he goes native and finds others living under better conditions and slowly surmises the basis for the state of affairs which the groups have little interest in pursuing.
While space travel is routine, biological mutation and evolution is front and center. Psionic abilities also play a prominent role. Given the global state of affairs at the time of its publication, the planet is clearly a metaphor for the single-minded stubbornness of large groups (be they colonists or whole governments) to pursue self-destructive paths with expectations of total annihilation of an equally matched enemy, never questioning the overall strategy and constantly upping tactical approaches. Not surprisingly, the story transcends its time and resonates even today.
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