Planet of Dread

Description

When Moran and the crew of the space yacht Nadine find a world that has not been supervised in over 100 years, they soon learn that the ecosystem had developed in wild and unpredictable ways. Can they survive it? Or was the attempt to make other planets develop into habitable worlds to sustain human life an utter failure – at least in this case?

Murray Leinster is at his imaginative height again throughout this exciting novel. Planet of Dread is essentially a thought experiment associated with what would happen if humanity finally reached for the stars and tried to terraform other planets with the aim of building an expanded human empire across the cosmos.

Leinster’s ideas have come at a time when humanity first had a glimpse of what it would feel like to touch the stars. The first pioneers of space flight have brought many new ideas to a world that previously saw itself as limited. One of the first and most skilled sci-fi writers to explore these ideas, Leinster came up with Planet of Dread both as a test of humanity’s vision and as a dynamic and entertaining plot that challenges readers to think beyond the characters’ limitation in their ability to escape a wild and unpredictable new world.

Subsequent science fiction authors and movie directors have developed their own spin on Leinster’s concept of terraforming, further expanding on the concept. However, the novel itself remains a classic of the golden age of sci-fi, already introducing elements and plot twists that were almost entirely new at the time, and managed to draw significant attention from readers throughout the world and across the next generations.

If you enjoy a thrilling and thought provoking sci-fi tale from before the time of modern day special effects and CGI, Planet of Dread is definitely one of the first novels you should begin to read.
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