Deathworld

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• gdy · May 20, 2019 · Recommends

  I've read a lot of Azimov, including the Foundation series, and nearly all books by the Strugatsky brothers. And I too loved Harry Harrisons's Deathworld when I was a schoolboy :) Reading Chekhov makes me genuinely sad, maybe I take the lives of his heroes too close to heart. I am not sure about top 3, but if I had to reread something I've read before,…

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• hyperion2010 · Jan 19, 2020 · Recommends

  Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp which appears to recently have received a reprinting, my copy is from the 40s. Deathworld by Harry Harrison. I've been waiting for some screenplay writer to stumble across this one, and if I had to guess James Cameron probably did, but just didn't tell anyone. SLAN by A. E. van Vogt. The…

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• _carbyau_ · Oct 14, 2026 · Recommends

  Aside: Deathworld (Harry Harrison) is a classic scifi trilogy from the '60s. It was kind of a "macho adventure fantasy", like James Bond in a scifi setting. Same author had a similar character style with his Stainless…

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• jacknews · Oct 28, 2023 · Mentions

  This situation always makes me think of the scifi books 'Deathworld' by Harry Harrison. Whatever the solution, or at least, path forward, is, it is never 'more aggression', especially from a position of power.

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• g051051 · Dec 15, 2021 · Mentions

  "Deathworld 2" by Harry Harrison has a plot along those lines. Apparently the original name was "The Ethical Engineer".

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• groby_b · Apr 12, 2023 · Mentions

  …Lords:Beyond it all/Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins) is severely tilted to "everybody is reading it!" A last try with a decided "60's Scifi" slant - Small, still voice of trumpets/The Tomorrow People/Deathworld. And I get Hitchhiker's Guide, War of the World's, Rainbows End. I don't look for book recommendations to learn what everybody is reading, those books are inescapable anyways. I'm looking for thematically…

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