Project Gutenberg 2009-07-30 Public domain in the USA. 111 Sheckley, Robert 1928 2005 Barbee, Phillips Lang, Ned O'Donnevan, Finn Barbee, Phillip Warrior Race Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Warrior Race" by Robert Sheckley is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story explores themes of cultural misunderstanding and the absurdity of war through the lens of two human characters, Fannia and Donnaught, who find themselves stranded on an alien planet inhabited by a unique civilization known for their warrior ethos. The story delves into the consequences of differing social structures and the extremes to which societies might go in the name of honor and combat. In "Warrior Race," Fannia and Donnaught's space journey leads them to the planet Cascella, where they discover that the native inhabitants consider suicide as a form of warfare. Seeking fuel to continue their journey, the duo inadvertently provokes the socially ingrained battle instinct of the Cascellans, who pride themselves on their warrior spirit. Through a series of darkly comedic encounters, including a misguided attempt at negotiation, the alien beliefs about honor and glory come to a head, culminating in a brutal display of self-sacrifice that challenges the very nature of conflict. Ultimately, Fannia and Donnaught devise a plan to escape by manipulating the chief's warrior pride, demonstrating how cultural perceptions can drastically affect interactions between diverse species. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 51382 51390 2024-09-12T14:52:53.542256 2023-09-13T06:58:44.141448 text/html text/html 47606 2021-01-05T09:42:13 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 140880 2021-01-05T09:42:13 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 189792 2024-09-12T14:52:56.919366 application/epub+zip 188373 2024-09-12T14:52:54.838267 application/epub+zip 67144 2024-09-12T14:52:54.003364 application/epub+zip 299433 2024-09-12T14:52:58.537273 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291033 2024-09-12T14:52:56.344273 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 132807 2022-09-13T15:55:17.057671 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 44210 44109 2024-09-12T14:52:53.307214 2023-09-13T06:58:43.941432 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 44111 2021-01-05T09:42:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16975 2021-01-05T09:42:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18933 2024-09-12T14:52:58.670279 application/rdf+xml 12188 2024-09-12T14:52:54.348244 image/jpeg 3184 2024-09-12T14:52:54.175258 image/jpeg 191198 2024-09-12T14:52:53.557217 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