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Language English Media type Print (hardback) OCLC 1813386 Cover artist Ed Emshwiller Genres Novel, Science Fiction | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date 1954 Pages 177 pp Originally published 1954 Publisher Gnome Press Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The forgotten planet by murray leinster read by richard kilmer complete unabridged audiobook
The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine Argosy in 1920 and 1921, and "Nightmare Planet" which appeared in Science Fiction Plus in 1953.
Contents
Plot introduction
The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects and plants grew to gigantic sizes. The action of the novel describes the fight for survival by descendants of a crashed spaceship as they battle wolf-sized ants, flies the size of chickens, and gigantic flying wasps.
Reception
Groff Conklin praised the novel as "Leinster at his exciting, skilled best," declaring "there is almost nothing in the story that is not first-rate." P. Schuyler Miller similarly reported "the old master is at his best in this one." Anthony Boucher, however, found it to be "an interminable sequence of wars against giant insects, which seems pretty outmoded today."