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DEATHWORLD DEATHWORLD II PLANET OF THE DAMNED TWO TALES AND EIGHT TOMORROWS THE JUPITER LEGACY (PLAGUE FROM SPACE)

PLANET OF THE DAMNED

BY HARRY HARRISON

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PLANET OF THE DAMNED

A Bantam Book / published January 1962 New Bantam edition published February 1971

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For my Mother and Father--

RIA AND LEO HARRISON

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A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However" replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."

STEPHEN CRANE

Sweat covered Brion's body, trickling into the tight loincloth that was the only garment he wore. The light fencing foil in his hand felt as heavy as a bar of lead to his exhausted muscles, worn out by a month of continual exercise. These things were of no importance. The cut on his chest, still dripping blood, the ache of his overstrained eyes--even the soaring arena around him with the thousands of spectators--were trivialities not worth thinking about. There was only one thing in his universe: the button-tipped length of shining steel that ho

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