The Forgotten Planet
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| The Forgotten Planet | |
 Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author | Murray Leinster |
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| Cover artist | Ed Emshwiller |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
| Publication date | 1954 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 177 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| OCLC | 1813386 |
The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine Argosy in 1920 and 1921 and "Nightmare Planet" which appeared in Science Fiction Plus in 1953.
[edit] Plot introduction
The novel concerns the fight for survival by descendants of survivors of a spaceship crash on an alien planet.
[edit] References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 303.
- Contento, William G. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 242-243. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
