Planet Nightmare - Leinster, Murray

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Résumé :
Planet Nightmare is a classic Murray Leinster science-fiction adventure of survival, alien ecology, and human courage on a world where nature itself has become monstrous. On a strange and perilous planet, Burl faces an environment of giant insects, immense dangers, and evolutionary terrors far beyond ordinary human scale. This is planetary adventure in the old magazine tradition: fast, vivid, dangerous, and built around the spectacle of humanity confronting a world not made for human comfort. Originally published as Nightmare Planet, this novella forms part of Leinster's Burl sequence, connected to the earlier stories The Mad Planet and Red Dust. Contemporary framing for the story described it as the final story in that series and noted that the earlier tales had remained popular for decades after their original 1923 publication. The story can be read on its own, but it also carries forward Leinster's larger imaginative premise: an Earth transformed into a nightmare landscape where insects dominate and human survival depends on intelligence, nerve, adaptation, and luck. For readers of golden age science fiction, planetary adventure, ecological science fiction, lost-world danger, and Murray Leinster's classic magazine work, Planet Nightmare offers a compact and energetic example of pulp-era speculation: strange biology, constant peril, and a hostile world rendered with colour and force. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery....

Biographie:
Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975), an American writer whose long career helped shape twentieth-century science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns, and popular magazine fiction. Beginning in the pulp era and continuing through the golden age of science fiction, Leinster became known for clear storytelling, inventive premises, practical scientific imagination, and a strong sense of adventure. His science-fiction work includes landmark stories such as First Contact, as well as many novels and short works concerned with exploration, technology, alien worlds, social pressure, and survival under strange conditions.Leinster's importance to classic science fiction lies partly in his range. He wrote space exploration, planetary adventure, alternate-world stories, future war, ecological speculation, and problem-solving science fiction with a craftsman's speed and clarity. In works such as Planet Nightmare, he brings pulp energy to speculative biology and hostile-environment survival, creating worlds where human beings must think quickly or perish. For readers of golden age science fiction, early magazine SF, and classic adventure-driven speculative fiction, Leinster remains one of the field's durable and highly readable names....

Sommaire:
Murray Leinster (1896-1975), the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, was a prolific American writer whose career spanned the pulp era and the development of modern science fiction. He produced novels and short stories noted for their technical imagination and narrative economy, and is often credited with anticipating later science fiction concepts such as alternate universes and networked communication. Leinster's work remains a cornerstone of mid-century speculative literature....