Deathworld: A Positronic Book - Hardcover

by Harry Harrison (Author)

Harry Harrison's Deathworld is a fast-moving classic of science fiction adventure, set on a planet where every living thing seems dedicated to killing its human settlers. Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler with psionic talent, a man used to dangerous odds and desperate players. When he is drawn into the conflict on Pyrrus, he finds a world of crushing gravity, lethal wildlife, poisonous plants, and colonists hardened into a culture of permanent war. Survival on Pyrrus is not a matter of courage alone; it demands intelligence, adaptation, and the willingness to question everything the settlers believe about the planet they are trying to conquer.

First published in 1960, Deathworld helped establish Harry Harrison as one of the most entertaining and inventive voices in mid-twentieth-century science fiction. Blending planetary adventure, action, ecological speculation, and sharp social observation, the novel asks whether humanity's first response to a hostile environment should be domination or understanding. This Positronic Book edition presents a landmark SF adventure for readers of classic science fiction, pulp adventure, hostile planet stories, space colonisation fiction, and golden age speculative fiction.

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