Mark Clifton 3 hr 38 min read

On the paradise-planet Eden, a whole colony suddenly falls silent, every human contact lost, and a troubleshooter must discover what unmade a perfect world.

Mark Clifton's 1960 novel sends its investigator to solve the mystery of a vanished colony, blending first contact, colonization, and Clifton's sharp interest in human psychology. Thoughtful, ambitious golden-age SF. Read it for a substantial novel about a paradise gone inexplicably, terrifyingly wrong.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).