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Original Title:	Deathworld
ISBN:	0722144857 (ISBN13: 9780722144855)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Deathworld #1
Characters:	Jason dinAlt
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1961)

Deathworld 1 (Deathworld #1)

Harry Harrison

Paperback | Pages: 157 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 6806 Users | 369 Reviews

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The planet was called Pyrrus...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.
The settlers there were supermen...twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder...
It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...

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Title	:	Deathworld 1 (Deathworld #1)
Author	:	Harry Harrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 157 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1983 by Orbit (first published March 1960)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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Ratings: 3.94 From 6806 Users | 369 Reviews

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How have I not known of this masterpiece until now? Rarely do I give a book five stars but it would have been disingenuous not to give Deathworld the highest rating possible. The main character, Jason, is sufficiently narcissistic, believing that his own psionic abilities make him superior to others, especially in gambling. The novel is filled with human and moral complexity, such as how we should honor the dead, what to do with valuable information that can cause chaos, the importance of

I have read several of the other reviews of this book and I think the majority have missed the point. It may be fantasy or science fiction, whatever you might want to call it. It has flaws, but remember it was written in 1960 when modern Sci-Fy was barely in its infancy and during some of he highest points of the Cold War. Also his first novel! Most reviewers miss the point I believe Harry was trying to make - how to stop wars. I doubt he thought it possible though. I read it a long time ago for

(view spoiler)[Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt. Originally from an agrarian planet Porgorstorsaand, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While on a gambling trip to the casino on the planet Cassylia, 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

Enjoyable story about a planet... OF DEATH! Pretty fun tale about karma (kind of). In death world the ecology of a planet seems hellbent on killing its human inhabitants to the degree that evolution has steered the plants and animals in such a way that all their offensive and defensive traits are specifically geared towards killing and maiming humans. The funny thing is the humans have only been on the planet for a few hundred years, not nearly enough time for any kind of evolution to respond to

Set on the most deadly planet you can imagine where everything from the smallest insect to the largest bird of prey is out to get you and where even the plants have fangs. I quite liked it when I first read it (in German) many years ago. Now I read it again, for the first time in English, and I have to say Im still thrilled to visit planet Pyrrus and its inhabitants. The characters havent lost their charm, which comes along as being a little rough sometimes. Some technical stuff seems a little

3.5 stars - Metaphorosis ReviewsJason din Alt is a gambler with a special touch. When Kerk, ambassador from Pyrrus, engages din Alt to multiply a small stake, things get complicated, and the pair flee to Pyrrus, which offers problems of its own.It took me a long time to get to Deathworld, way back when. A friend of mine promoted the books, but he was partial to military SF (he was right about Dorsai) and Gor (I've never wanted to check). When I finally did get around to Harry Harrison, I was

Storyline: 4/5Characters: 3/5Writing Style: 3/5World: 4/5What a cool oldie. If this had advertised itself as an action-adventure in the lineage of old school science fiction pulp, it wouldn't have attracted my attention in the least. But it was exactly that, and I found myself eagerly reading on to chapter after chapter. The writing was perfectly sufficient, promising little and delivering more than hinted. The characters initially looked to be cut-outs but turned out to be filling uniquely-cast