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The Doom from Planet 4: A Positronic Book
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781515452898
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Sep 16 2021
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A high-concept planetary menace tale from one of the architects of modern science fiction.
In The Doom from Planet 4, Jack Williamson unleashes a cosmic threat born beyond the familiar boundaries of the solar system. When signals and strange phenomena point to an approaching force from a distant world, scientists and adventurers must confront an intelligence whose motives-and destructive capabilities-are unlike anything humanity has faced. Suspense builds not merely from invasion, but from the unsettling realization that the universe may harbor powers indifferent to human survival.
Written during the energetic expansion of early pulp science fiction, the story exemplifies Williamson's blend of sweeping imagination and disciplined narrative momentum. Themes of technological daring, alien encounter, and existential risk unfold within the tradition that helped define Golden Age speculative fiction. The Doom from Planet 4 stands as a vivid reminder of the era when science fiction first grappled seriously with cosmic scale and interplanetary peril.
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