Project Gutenberg 2012-04-29 Public domain in the USA. 56 Pangborn, Edgar 1909 1976 West of the sun Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Bruce Albrecht, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "West of the Sun" by Edgar Pangborn is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story unfolds in a future where humans explore a newly discovered planet called Lucifer, which is teeming with life but is also filled with unknown dangers. The narrative centers around six human characters, including anthropologist Dr. Christopher Wright, whose belief in the goodness of humanity is tested by their encounters with alien species on this strange new world. The opening of the novel introduces readers to the crew of the spaceship "Argo" as they prepare to land on the red-green planet, Lucifer, in the year 2056 A.D., although the inhabitants refer to it as "Year One." Each of the six characters is distinct: Paul Mason shares his wife with his friend, Dorothy Leeds, and faces his own emotional turmoil; Sears Oliphant, the gentle scientist, seeks to understand his alien counterparts; along with the others, they grapple with the challenges of survival in an unfamiliar environment. As their ship descends, the dynamics among the crew highlight their hopes, fears, and the philosophical dilemmas they face when encountering new forms of life, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of humanity's capacity for companionship and conflict amidst chaos and danger. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 464708 464704 2024-10-16T15:43:03.416833 2023-09-17T09:23:20.193830 text/html text/html 473143 2012-04-29T10:57:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 299210 2012-04-29T10:57:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 411254 2024-10-16T15:43:13.065826 application/epub+zip 415948 2024-10-16T15:43:06.776872 application/epub+zip 256704 2024-10-16T15:43:05.376868 application/epub+zip 634009 2024-10-16T15:43:17.875825 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 597749 2024-10-16T15:43:12.111817 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 425734 2022-09-18T06:59:49.835040 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 437736 437629 2024-10-16T15:43:02.283355 2023-09-17T09:23:19.318825 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 437571 2012-04-29T10:57:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 175393 2012-04-29T10:57:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 437562 2012-04-29T10:57:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 175366 2012-04-29T10:57:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21463 2024-10-16T15:43:18.018766 application/rdf+xml 13957 2024-10-16T15:43:05.949838 image/jpeg 3683 2024-10-16T15:43:05.662837 image/jpeg 381624 2024-10-16T15:43:03.466845 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