The Forgotten Planet

The Forgotten Planet

Infobox Book
name = The Forgotten Planet
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Murray Leinster
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cover_artist = Ed Emshwiller
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Gnome Press
release_date = 1954
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 177 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1813386
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"The Forgotten Planet" is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine "Argosy" in 1920 and 1921 and "Nightmare Planet" which appeared in "Science Fiction Plus" in 1953.

Plot introduction

The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expendition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millenia the insects and plants grew to gigantic sizes. The action of the novel describes the fight for survival by descendants of a crashed spaceship as they battle wolf-sized ants, flies the size of chickens, and gigantic flying wasps.

References

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*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=242-243 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1


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