THE SHROUDED PLANET

by Robert Randall pseudonym by Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Robert Randall.

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. A first contact story in which Earthmen discover Nidor, a planet ruled by a theocracy. The average Nidorian considers change to be unthinkable: any deed or idea not authorized by the scriptures is taboo. The Earthmen's solution to an agricultural crisis results in overproduction, economic collapse, the Great Depression, depletion of the soil, and

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