Planets of Adventure

Interesting collection of a few novels and short stories by Leinster, first published between 1920 and the 1950s. The first novel, the Forgotten Planet, is from the 20s and concerns people marooned on a planet for 1000s of years. The planet was 'seeded' twice by humanity, first with fungi and then w......more

This omnibus book contains one full novel (The forgotten planet, very good), one short novel (The planet explorer, quite nice too), plus five short stories. The best of these for me was "Assignment on Pasik," where a space cop must make a crash landing on a planet with his possibly sabotaged ship, a......more

Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest well......more

{listened, audiobook from Audible} The novel the Forgotten Planet was fun and creepy, a sort of Conan the Barbarian with scifi roots on a horrifying insect world (what would in Warhammer 40k be called a "death world"). The Planet Explorer was tedious with its stock pulp characters, the main stoic guy......more

How would you like to be marooned on a planet lost to memory, a planet with monstrous insects and giant spiders? Sound like fun? No?......more