Harry Harrison 3 hr 43 min read

Some planet in the galaxy must, by definition, be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all, and Pyrrus, where every plant and beast is out to kill you, is an awfully good approximation.

Harry Harrison's 1960 novel launches the Deathworld saga with gambler Jason dinAlt drawn to a world at total war with its own biosphere. Fast, ferocious, ingenious, a genre classic. Read it for a landmark adventure about the deadliest planet ever imagined and the man who tries to understand it.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 43 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

H. R. Van Dongen