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Available
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Publication
Bantam Books (New York, 1981). 1st edition, 4th printing. 201 pages. $2.50.
Description
Too dangerous to live. Too valuable to kill. Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families. Then disaster. One year the ships do not come; starvation threatens Halvmork. Jan rallies the people for their own survival, and guides them on a perilous trek across half a planet. Battling heat and savage creatures, earthquakes and volcanoes, fighting the violence and treachery of the Families, Jan leads the people of Wheelworld to their new destiny.
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LibraryThing member SwampIrish
Picks up with our protagonist from Homeworld being exiled to another planet that is being used to produce food for the empire. On this planet Summer only comes every four years but when it does, it burns everything, causing the colonists to have to make a global convoy to the other hemisphere. This
I like these tight little 200 page sci-fi novels that I can read in an afternoon. Whereas the last novel was a little predictable, this one read more like a Doug McClure movie. It gains a half star on it's predecessor because of some added tension that the previous book didn't have.
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is the year to move but there is one problem; the ships haven't come yet. It is up to Jan, the brilliant engineer and strategist, to get them there safely.I like these tight little 200 page sci-fi novels that I can read in an afternoon. Whereas the last novel was a little predictable, this one read more like a Doug McClure movie. It gains a half star on it's predecessor because of some added tension that the previous book didn't have.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1981
Physical description
181 p.; 6.7 inches
ISBN
0553207741 / 9780553207743