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Deathworld

Audiobook

Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to steal back the money. In a fit of ennui, he decides to accompany Kerk to his home, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans...Deathworld! Deathworld is one of the classics of the Golden Age of science fiction, born in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr.


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Publisher: Author's Republic Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781518932038
  • File size: 152441 KB
  • Release date: August 29, 2016
  • Duration: 05:17:35

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781518932038
  • File size: 152660 KB
  • Release date: August 29, 2016
  • Duration: 05:17:32
  • Number of parts: 5

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to steal back the money. In a fit of ennui, he decides to accompany Kerk to his home, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans...Deathworld! Deathworld is one of the classics of the Golden Age of science fiction, born in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr.


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