West of the Sun - Couverture souple

Edgar-pangborn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0440193664 ISBN 13 : 9780440193661

Editeur : Dell Publishing, 1980

Synopsis

Book by Edgar Pangborn

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “West of the Sun” is a sprawling tale of adventure and war on a distant planet, written by Edgar Pangborn. Several light-years west of the Earth’s Sun lay the planet, Lucifer, circling a sun of its own, circled by its own two moons. The five specially selected and trained passengers of the “Argo” found much on Lucifer to remind them of the Earth they had left eleven years before. The air was invigorating, the vegetation lush, and there were people—a race of friendly white giants and a swarming population of wary pygmy tribes. The Earth pioneers soon faced the problem of survival on the red-green planet, and also the founding of a democratic civilization among the strife-torn pygmies. However, they were soon entwined in a brutal war between opposing pygmy forces. On the outcome of this war hinged the very fate of the new way of life on Lucifer...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dell Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0440193664
• ISBN 13: 9780440193661
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible