Deathworld
A planet that wants you dead. That's the premise that makes Deathworld crackle. Harry Harrison built a world where every living thing, from the flora to the fauna to the weather itself, has evolved with one purpose: to kill human settlers. The colonists didn't just survive Pyrrus - they were transformed by it, becoming twice as strong as ordinary people with reflexes measured in milliseconds. They had to be. Their world is murder. Jason dinAlt is an interplanetary gambler, a man who lives by calculating odds and reading people. When he's drawn into a high-stakes game on Pyrrus, he discovers the planet's hostility runs deeper than biology - it threatens to consume everything humanity has built. What follows is a story about what constant violence does to a society, and whether humans can adapt fast enough to survive a world that's actively trying to exterminate them. Harrison delivers pulse-pounding adventure while asking what we become when survival is the only currency that matters.
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“It is very hard to be a hypocrite if you aren't trained for it.””
— Harry Harrison
“Just because you know a thing is true in theory, doesn't make it true in fact. The barbaric religions of primitive worlds hold not a germ of scientific fact, though they claim to explain all. Yet if one of these savages has all the logical ground for his beliefs taken away”
— Harry Harrison
“Skop screamed when they all looked at him, shouted it was all a trick, and had to be clubbed unconscious when he attacked the bowmen. Understanding had come to Pyrrus.””
— Harry Harrison
“Ever see a plant with teeth”
— Harry Harrison
“Snorting with disgust, Meta stamped out.””
— Harry Harrison
“That was foolish of me," she said coldly while she reloaded the gun. "I don't need a gun. If I had to kill him, I could do it with my bare hands." "I love you, too," Jason smiled at her.””
— Harry Harrison
“Minder of my body you may be. But minder of my soul you are not. What do you say I call the shots and you go along to shoot the monsters? O.K.?””
— Harry Harrison
“Kerk slammed his hand down hard on the table. The dishes bounced and the table legs creaked. "Laboratory reactions!" he growled.””
— Harry Harrison
“Why? Jason asked himself. Why this intense and planetary hatred?””
— Harry Harrison
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