Pariah Planet (version 2)

A plague that marks its victims with blue skin. A galaxy that responds with panic. When the blue plague strikes the remote planet of Dara, causing mutations that spread fear across neighboring worlds, the inhabitants of Dara become hunted pariahs. The infection transforms ordinary people into something the galaxy cannot tolerate, and the resulting hysteria threatens the peace of interstellar civilization itself. At the center of the chaos stands one individual from Dara who may be immune to the plague, or may be its ultimate weapon. Is he a savior who can find a cure, or a monster waiting to be unleashed? Murray Leinster's 1959 novel pulses with Cold War anxiety and the era's dread of radiation and the unknown other. It asks what happens when fear becomes more dangerous than the disease itself, and how quickly a civilization will abandon its principles when confronted with what it cannot understand. For readers who crave science fiction that uses the stars to illuminate our darkest impulses.