Project Gutenberg 2009-07-18 Public domain in the USA. 270 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay Pariah Planet Published in Amazing Stories, July 1961. Med Service See also PG#18172 version as "This World is Taboo" Produced by Greg Weeks, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Pariah Planet" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story revolves around a medical officer named Calhoun and his tormal companion, Murgatroyd, who embark on a journey to a troubled planet facing a health crisis and deep-seated prejudices. The underlying themes focus on fear, paranoia, and the consequences of misunderstanding, especially pertaining to a group labeled as "blueskins," people who survived a plague and are now seen as a threat. The opening of the novel introduces Calhoun as he pilots the Med Ship Aesclipus Twenty towards the planet Weald, which is gripped by fear of the blueskins, a group hailing from the nearby planet Dara. As he makes preparations for landing and descends into the atmosphere, he grapples with the challenges of navigating a society that has allowed its apprehensions to shape xenophobic policies. When he arrives, he discovers that a recent tragedy, possibly linked to the blueskins, has escalated fears and tensions. Through Calhoun's interactions, the narrative develops a complex observation of how quickly fear can lead to scapegoating and societal unrest, setting the stage for a confrontation between humanity's better nature and its darker instincts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 76.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Life on other planets -- Fiction Space medicine -- Fiction Quarantine -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science - General Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 246719 2025-06-12T08:37:06.915571 text/html 246863 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 538306 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 552889 2025-06-12T08:37:11.346561 application/epub+zip 554306 2025-06-12T08:37:07.694586 application/epub+zip 162985 2025-06-12T08:37:07.326576 application/epub+zip 643454 2025-06-12T08:37:14.383548 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 618716 2025-06-12T08:37:10.983549 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228086 2022-09-13T15:26:56.071186 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 226155 2025-06-12T08:37:06.340589 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 225989 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 84718 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 226004 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 84684 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22678 2025-06-12T08:37:14.552557 application/rdf+xml 27857 2025-06-12T08:37:07.423586 image/jpeg 4697 2025-06-12T08:37:07.376577 image/jpeg 537922 2025-06-12T08:37:06.954585 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia