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The Mad Planet: A Positronic Book
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781515405061
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Feb 28 2016
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Murray Leinster's imaginative science fiction adventure portrays a distant future Earth transformed into a hostile world dominated by giant insects and relentless danger.
In the far future, Earth has become a strange and perilous world where humanity struggles to survive amid vast forests of towering vegetation and monstrous insects that rule the landscape. The balance of nature has shifted, and human beings-once masters of the planet-now exist as scattered survivors living in constant fear of creatures far larger and more powerful than themselves.
Against this dangerous backdrop, a young man named Burl begins to discover new courage and ingenuity as he learns to confront the terrifying world around him. Through resourcefulness and determination, he gradually finds ways to challenge the dominance of the monstrous creatures that threaten humanity's survival.
First published in 1920, The Mad Planet is one of the early classics of science fiction's giant insect tradition. Murray Leinster's vivid imagination and sense of adventure helped establish the foundations of later ecological and evolutionary science fiction, making the story a memorable milestone in the development of the genre.
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