Project Gutenberg 2009-07-18 Public domain in the USA. 100 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay Pariah Planet Med Service See also PG#18172 version as "This World is Taboo" Produced by Greg Weeks, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Pariah Planet" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story revolves around a medical officer named Calhoun and his tormal companion, Murgatroyd, who embark on a journey to a troubled planet facing a health crisis and deep-seated prejudices. The underlying themes focus on fear, paranoia, and the consequences of misunderstanding, especially pertaining to a group labeled as "blueskins," people who survived a plague and are now seen as a threat. The opening of the novel introduces Calhoun as he pilots the Med Ship Aesclipus Twenty towards the planet Weald, which is gripped by fear of the blueskins, a group hailing from the nearby planet Dara. As he makes preparations for landing and descends into the atmosphere, he grapples with the challenges of navigating a society that has allowed its apprehensions to shape xenophobic policies. When he arrives, he discovers that a recent tragedy, possibly linked to the blueskins, has escalated fears and tensions. Through Calhoun's interactions, the narrative develops a complex observation of how quickly fear can lead to scapegoating and societal unrest, setting the stage for a confrontation between humanity's better nature and its darker instincts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Life on other planets -- Fiction Space medicine -- Fiction Quarantine -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science - General Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 246605 246615 2024-09-12T14:28:52.681182 2023-09-13T06:38:24.152407 text/html text/html 246863 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 538306 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 552778 2024-09-12T14:28:56.652170 application/epub+zip 554440 2024-09-12T14:28:53.319160 application/epub+zip 163054 2024-09-12T14:28:53.007166 application/epub+zip 643502 2024-09-12T14:28:59.435158 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 618716 2024-09-12T14:28:56.304235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228086 2022-09-13T15:26:56.071186 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 226155 226056 2024-09-12T14:28:52.066217 2023-09-13T06:38:23.655397 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 225989 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 84718 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 226004 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 84684 2021-01-05T08:45:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22265 2024-09-12T14:28:59.581145 application/rdf+xml 27857 2024-09-12T14:28:53.090168 image/jpeg 4697 2024-09-12T14:28:53.048198 image/jpeg 537977 2024-09-12T14:28:52.716254 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia