Planet of the Damned

Planet of the Damned

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 1987-09

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780812539783

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Classic Science Fiction adventure from the creator of The Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero. Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition that tests one' achievements in 20 categories of human activities. But Brion must leave his world to help salvage the world of Dis, the most hellish planet in the galaxy.


Planet of the Damned

Planet of the Damned

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 2322436771

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Hugo nominated in 1962, originally published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction as "Sense of Obligation." Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition to test achievements in 20 categories of human activities -- but before he can enjoy his victory he's forced to leave his homeworld to help salvage Dis, the most hellish planet in the galaxy.


Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)

Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)

Author: Joe Meno

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1936070294

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The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails. “A funny, hard-rocking first-person tale of teenage angst and discovery.” —Booklist “Captures the loose, fun, recklessness of midwestern punk.” —MTV.com Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago’s south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school’s segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.


Planet of No Return

Planet of No Return

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 1993-11-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1466823194

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WORLD-SAVING IS HARD WORK. Brion Brandd learned that in Planet of the Damned. Now, in this stunning sequel, he's going to learn that even when it comes to world-saving some jobs are easier than others--because the Planet of the Damned was a piece of candy compared to what's waiting for him on Planet of No Return. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Planet of the Damned

Planet of the Damned

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-08-02

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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Planet of the Damned follows Brion Brandd, a character who lives on the planet Anvhar, which, due to an elliptical orbit, experiences a year with a long cold winter and a short hot summer, to which the population have become adapted. To avoid social problems during the winter period, Anvhar has initiated a planet-wide series of mental and physical games called the Twenties. The novel starts with Brandd winning the Twenties. As he recovers from the games, Brandd meets Ihjel, a previous winner of the Twenties, who asks him to join a mission on the desert planet of Dis. The ruling class of Dis, the magter, have threatened to transport cobalt bombs onto a neighbouring planet if they refuse to surrender. As a result, the planet is being blockaded and under threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike.


Planet of the Damned & Death Planet

Planet of the Damned & Death Planet

Author: Pat Mills

Publisher: 2000 AD

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781084137

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Beyond the Bermuda Triangle lies a world so hostile to human beings that those stranded there know it as 'The Planet Of the Damned!' When a Tri-Star jet crashes on this treacherous world, the survivors find themselves being relentlessly attacked by all forms native flora and fauna, including the monstrous Ab-humans. Fortunately they are discovered by Flint - another human resident stranded on this world long ago. With their axe-wielding guide in taking charge, some of the survivors may just find a way to return home alive! It's the 23rd century and the starship Eternity sets out from Earth carrying a cargo of colonists bound for new lives on distant worlds. When the ship is knocked off course, crashing on an unknown alien planet, Commander Lorna Varn and colonist leader Richard Cory must set aside their differences and work together to keep everyone alive.


The Book of the Damned

The Book of the Damned

Author: Charles Fort

Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1625792719

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Features an introductory essay by Jack WomackLo! Welcome to the worlds of Charles Fort, chronicler of the odd, the weird, the strange, the unexpected, and the inexplicable. In words at times as beautiful as anything ever written in English, Fort reveals the marvels of an age, questions the nature of what we think we know for certain, and provides the reader with leads on how not to be fooled by shaggy dog stories. Here youll find rains of the unexpected, fish, snakes, and other items from the _super-Sargasso seaÓ of the unexplained that circles the Earth. Here are accounts of UFOs, accounts of odd animals seen at sea or on land, mysterious attacks by what appear to have been animals, mysterious appearances of things and people in places they could not be. Here Forts epic account of spontaneous combustion, lights in the sky, poltergeists, unseen. murderous wild animals, mysterious disappearances, manifestations of psychotic mania, speaking in tongues¾and, of course, the cow that gave birth to two lambs. All of this Fortean wonder is prefaced by a magnificent new introductory essay by Jack Womack, winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and lifetime Fortean. This Ebook is part of the Baen Books Charles Fort Ebook Collection At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).


Planet of the Damned

Planet of the Damned

Author: Harry Harrison

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781718720367

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Planet of the Damned Harry HARRISON (1925 - 2012) Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But scarcely able to enjoy his victory, Brandd is swept off to the hellish planet Dis where he must use his heightened sense of empathy to help avert a global nuclear holocaust by negotiating with the blockading fleet, traversing the Disan underworld, and cracking the mystery of the savagely ruthless magter. Summary by Great Plains.


Death of the Planet of the Apes

Death of the Planet of the Apes

Author: Andrew E. C. Gaska

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1785653598

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New adventures revealing secrets stemming from Beneath the Planet of the Apes In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Col. George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) disappears into the Forbidden Zone, only to return in the film's climactic scene. For forty-eight years, the question has remained--what happened to Taylor? Finally the truth is revealed. Beneath the irradiated wasteland, the astronaut faces the deadly wonders of a gleaming city and its inhuman citizenry. On the surface the gorillas--led by General Ursus--launch an all-out assault to exterminate the savage animals known as humans. And out in the desert, the chimpanzee scientist Milo strives to reconstruct the spacecraft that brought the humans from the past. Events spiral at a breakneck pace, with the fate of a world at stake.