Deathworld is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison first published in 1960.

Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It's the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity.

Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravity, abundant predators, and a hostile splinter group of colonists is only the beginning of Jason's quest to learn the truth about Pyrrus. 'Some planet in the galaxy must-by definition-be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn't it...it was an awfully good approximation! '

Deathworld is the name of a series of science fiction novels by Harry Harrison including the books Deathworld (first published 1960, serialized in Astounding Science Fiction), Deathworld 2 (1964, initially titled The Ethical Engineer and serialized in Analog) and Deathworld 3 (1968, serialized in Analog as The Horse Barbarians), plus the short story 'The Mothballed Spaceship' (1973).

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