Project Gutenberg 2024-05-04 Public domain in the USA. 154 Elliott, Bruce 1914 1973 Elliott, Bruce Walter Gardner Lively Stacy Gardner, Walter Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay The planet of shame $aNew York, NY :$bZiff-Davis Publishing Company, $c1961. Produced from Amazing Stories May and June 1961. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Planet of Shame" by Bruce Elliott is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story revolves around a society established by exiled individuals on a distant planet, where traditional norms and structures from Earth have been discarded. The protagonist, James Comstock, is depicted as a 35-year-old living in a bizarre world where he struggles with concepts of adulthood, sexuality, and authority within a rigid, patriarchal society. At the start of the narrative, the reader is introduced to James Comstock as he grapples with a bewildering array of life experiences that he has been shielded from. The plot quickly escalates as he navigates his family's eccentric traditions regarding adulthood and relationships, punctuated by his alarming health crisis. This tension leads him into an underground lifestyle full of illicit encounters and the pressures of conformity. The opening chapters set the stage for broader themes of rebellion against societal norms, questioning authority, and seeking personal identity amidst the absurdities of a dystopian colony. As Comstock's situation spirals out of control, readers are drawn into a world where the absurdity of expectations clashes with the harsh realities of life on a planet meant for punishment rather than rehabilitation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20231216050143elliott 1961 US Reading ease score: 81.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Life on other planets -- Fiction Revolutionaries -- Fiction Space colonies -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 259958 2025-07-29T06:54:10.129884 text/html 235041 2024-05-04T19:46:17 text/html 1307932 2025-07-29T06:54:16.000865 application/epub+zip 1310664 2025-07-29T06:54:12.120897 application/epub+zip 344830 2025-07-29T06:54:10.942970 application/epub+zip 2059317 2025-07-29T06:54:18.706887 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2049369 2025-07-29T06:54:15.195903 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243205 2025-07-29T06:54:09.428912 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 223377 2024-05-04T19:46:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17255 2025-07-29T06:54:18.906856 application/rdf+xml 28616 2025-07-29T06:54:11.399897 image/jpeg 4784 2025-07-29T06:54:11.167921 image/jpeg 3405157 2025-07-29T06:54:10.190938 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