Sentenced to Prism
The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet named Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientist of the survey team. The Company didn't want to draw attention to itself by...
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The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet named Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientist of the survey team. The Company didn't want to draw attention to itself by sending in a rescue mission so they assigned Evan Orgell, a self-confident problem-solver, to investigate. He was smart, he was good. He was backed up by the Commonwealth' s best equipment. What could possibly go wrong?
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345319807 (034531980X)
Publish date: September 12th 1985
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 273
Edition language: English
Series: Humanx Commonwealth 6 (#12)
From Casual Debris. As a pre-teen in the mid-1980s, I read a modest of amount of science fiction, and for a few years enjoyed the campy works of Alan Dean Foster. I read about thirty of his books published in the 1970s up until about 1990, including a number of the novelizations. The books are qui...
Interesting fare about the definition of humanity. An explorer visits a planet where everything is silicon based and their world is based on individual roles. He has to try to survive both the world and the people who want to exploit it.