Dead World
Jack Douglas
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Description
Jack Douglas wrote this science-fiction story, illustrated by Barr, of Commander Red Stone and his Free Companions on an ice-buried planet. Its blurb says they led themselves to almost certain death for a dangerous dream with only one chance in a thousand trillion of coming true.
A short history of the United Galaxies explains the stakes. The latest dying star, RNAC 89778 of the far Menelaus galaxy, had eight inhabited planets. Yet barely a thousand people of the fifth planet got away, through a computer error of two years. Those refugees, called anti-social-types-B-6, cannot hold responsible positions. Yuan Saltario started it all, serving in the narrator's company in 3078.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jack Douglas |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |