Deathworld - Harrison, Harry

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Résumé :
Harry Harrison's Deathworld is a fast-moving classic of science fiction adventure, set on a planet where every living thing seems dedicated to killing its human settlers. Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler with psionic talent, a man used to dangerous odds and desperate players. When he is drawn into the conflict on Pyrrus, he finds a world of crushing gravity, lethal wildlife, poisonous plants, and colonists hardened into a culture of permanent war. Survival on Pyrrus is not a matter of courage alone...

Biographie:
Harry Harrison (1925-2012) was an American science fiction writer, editor, illustrator, and anthologist whose work combined energetic storytelling with satire, invention, and a deep suspicion of bureaucracy, militarism, and unexamined authority. Born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut, Harrison served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War and later worked in comics, illustration, and magazine publishing before becoming one of the best-known science fiction authors of the postwar era.Harrison is widely remembered for the Stainless Steel Rat series, the Deathworld novels, Make Room! Make Room!, and numerous short stories that helped define the lively, irreverent side of classic science fiction. His fiction often moves quickly, but beneath the action is a sharp intelligence: he used planetary adventure, criminal capers, ecological danger, and social satire to question violence, overpopulation, militarised thinking, and the assumption that humanity's first answer to any problem should be force. For readers of golden age science fiction, classic SF adventure, ecological science fiction, and witty speculative fiction, Harrison remains one of the field's most readable and distinctive voices....

Sommaire:
it demands intelligence, adaptation, and the willingness to question everything the settlers believe about the planet they are trying to conquer. First published in 1960, Deathworld helped establish Harry Harrison as one of the most entertaining and inventive voices in mid-twentieth-century science fiction. Blending planetary adventure, action, ecological speculation, and sharp social observation, the novel asks whether humanity's first response to a hostile environment should be domination or understanding. This Positronic Book edition presents a landmark SF adventure for readers of classic science fiction, pulp adventure, hostile planet stories, space colonisation fiction, and golden age speculative fiction. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery....