Deathworld by Harry Harrison

Posted by Harry Zimmerman on November 30, 2010 at 3:26am

Link: http://librivox.org/deathworld-by-harry-harrison/

Harry Harrison (1925 – ) is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravity, abundant predators, and a hostile splinter group of colonists is only the beginning of Jason’s quest to learn the truth about Pyrrus.

I really enjoyed this sory. Gregg Margarite is an excellent reader.

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Harry Zimmerman November 30, 2010 at 5:04pm

Gregg Margarite has done Deathworld II -The Ethical Engineer which
I also really enjoyed. A great author.

Link: http://librivox.org/the-ethical-engineer-by-harry-harrison/

I'll look out for Norman Spinrad who I have never read - Harry
- Harry Zimmerman > Harry Zimmerman November 30, 2010 at 5:24pm
  
  I've just found a reading of Subjectivity by Norman Spinrad read by
  Gregg Margarite in this collection of sci-fi stories.
  
  Link: http://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-032/
  
  I look forward to listening to it myself - Harry
- Riklaa > Harry Zimmerman November 30, 2010 at 6:50pm
  
  Thank You Harry! If you look by title at all, there is a book of Spinrad's short stories called "The Last Hurrah of The Golden Horde". It is a collection of his short stories and he is the master of the twist at the end. If you ever run into it I would love it and you would probably also. ------------------------------------------ Rick
- Anson (Bob) Roberts > Riklaa November 30, 2010 at 6:53pm
  
  Spinrad is new to me as well. I'll have to do some digging at my source sites!
  
  BTW - I have several of the Stainless Steel Rat books in audio, if you're interested
- Riklaa > Anson (Bob) Roberts November 30, 2010 at 6:59pm
  
  I'm interested, Slippery Jim DiGris is an all-time favorite. ------------------------------- Rick
- Anson (Bob) Roberts > Riklaa November 30, 2010 at 7:38pm
  
  Loading as ui type.
- Rosanna > Harry Zimmerman November 30, 2010 at 5:22pm
  
  Jesse Willis from SFFaudio has sang the praises of Gregg Margarite..
  Good choice.
Riklaa November 30, 2010 at 1:16pm

Wow, all 3 in one. When I read it years ago it was in large paperbacks. BTW, Harry Harrison is one of my favorite authors. Another is Norman Spinrad, so if you run into any of his that have good readers, i would love them. --- Rick