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Title: The Planet with No Nightmare
Series Title: Produced from If: Worlds of Science Fiction July 1961.
Credits:
Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephen Blundell and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Planet with No Nightmare" by Jim Harmon is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s, at a time when space exploration was gaining significant public interest. The narrative focuses on an exploration team that arrives on a mysterious planet, Yancy-6, where they encounter bizarre life forms and grapple with the implications of their existence, particularly in relation to mortality and the nature of life itself. The themes of isolation, suspicion, and existential inquiry weave through the story as the crew members confront the planet's strange phenomena. In "The Planet with No Nightmare," the story follows a surveyor named Ekstrohm and his two companions, Ryan and Nogol, as they land on the unfamiliar planet Yancy-6. Upon arrival, they initially encounter dead animals, which mysteriously disappear, leading to rising tensions within the crew as suspicions about Ekstrohm's sanity surface. The narrative intensifies as Ekstrohm discovers that the creatures on the planet can seemingly feign death as a defense mechanism. As the exploration team investigates, they learn about the planet's odd ecological dynamics, including a connection to enigmatic flying whales. Ultimately, the exploration leads to revelations about the possibility of immortality among the planet's residents and the implications for human colonization, culminating in Ekstrohm's decision to leave his companions behind and report back to civilization, emphasizing the loneliness of his condition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Harmon, Jim, 1933-2010
Illustrator: Wood, Wallace, 1927-1981
EBook No.: 31174
Published: Feb 3, 2010
Downloads: 103
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: The Planet with No Nightmare
Series Title: Produced from If: Worlds of Science Fiction July 1961.
Credits:
Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephen Blundell and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Planet with No Nightmare" by Jim Harmon is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s, at a time when space exploration was gaining significant public interest. The narrative focuses on an exploration team that arrives on a mysterious planet, Yancy-6, where they encounter bizarre life forms and grapple with the implications of their existence, particularly in relation to mortality and the nature of life itself. The themes of isolation, suspicion, and existential inquiry weave through the story as the crew members confront the planet's strange phenomena. In "The Planet with No Nightmare," the story follows a surveyor named Ekstrohm and his two companions, Ryan and Nogol, as they land on the unfamiliar planet Yancy-6. Upon arrival, they initially encounter dead animals, which mysteriously disappear, leading to rising tensions within the crew as suspicions about Ekstrohm's sanity surface. The narrative intensifies as Ekstrohm discovers that the creatures on the planet can seemingly feign death as a defense mechanism. As the exploration team investigates, they learn about the planet's odd ecological dynamics, including a connection to enigmatic flying whales. Ultimately, the exploration leads to revelations about the possibility of immortality among the planet's residents and the implications for human colonization, culminating in Ekstrohm's decision to leave his companions behind and report back to civilization, emphasizing the loneliness of his condition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Harmon, Jim, 1933-2010
Illustrator: Wood, Wallace, 1927-1981
EBook No.: 31174
Published: Feb 3, 2010
Downloads: 103
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.