The Forgotten Planet (Classics of Modern Science Fiction Series #6)
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- Synopsis
- It was a wild planet, but the space ships of Earth saw that it would someday be suitable for habitation, so they seeded it with lower forms of life--bacteria, fungi, simple plants, and insects--to re-create the food chain that human colonists would need. Next should have come the higher forms of animal life, but something went wrong. The Galactic record keepers lost their punch card, the planet was forgotten, and for centuries the forces of evolution worked their magic without further human intervention. Then one day a lifeboat, escaping from the stricken starship Icarus, brought a party of humans to the forgotten planet, where they encountered a nightmare world of huge mushrooms, giant spiders and beetles, monster worms and deadly fungi, a land of dense clouds and perpetual mists, without sunlight. It was an experiment out of control. Rescue was impossible and survival uncertain, so the descendants of the Icarus's people lost their technology, their culture and their language, and degenerated into savagery.
- Copyright:
- 1954
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 209 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780517554128
- Publisher:
- Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 10/27/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Murray Leinster
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Michael Sestak
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.