The Planet of Illusion

What if the universe itself could lie? Donald A. Wollheim's The Planet of Illusion drops its readers into a cosmic puzzle where nothing is as it seems. A crew of space explorers arrives at a distant planet only to find themselves trapped in a landscape that defies the laws of physics, where hostile inhabitants may be real, imagined, or something far stranger. As the line between illusion and reality dissolves, the crew must confront not just alien threats but the fundamental question of what any of us can truly know about the worlds we inhabit. Written in the early days of science fiction when the genre still burned with the thrill of the unknown, this is a tale of first contact stripped of easy answers. It will appeal to readers who crave their science fiction strange, philosophical, and unafraid to ask whether the final frontier might be the one inside our own minds.