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Pariah Planet

Murray Leinster

First published July 1961
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Med Service

A terrible blue plague has struck on the planet of Dara, sending fear out across all of the nearby worlds in the region. Fear quickly leads to hate which threatens the peace of the universe and the lives of millions of innocent beings. A Medical ship commanded by Calhoun heads into the danger area... and soon finds himself in greater danger than he thought possible... ...and part of that trouble comes in the shape of beautiful, gun-toting space stowaway named Maril...

34,041 words per Project Gutenberg transcription. "This World Is Taboo" is a lightly edited version of this story with some additional explanatory sentences scattered in which add 1,891 words.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1961 Cover Amazing Stories, July 1961 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 6
August 2002 Cover Med Ship Baen Books Collection 505
October 2003 Cover Med Ship Baen Books / SFBC Collection 505
January 2004 Cover Med Ship Baen Books Collection 503
May 2007 Cover The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |25.09
May 2007 The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |25.09
July 2009 Pariah Planet Project Gutenberg Chapbook
October 2010 The 1635: The Eastern Front Disk Baen Books Omnibus |30.09
January 2012 Cover Tyrants of Time / Pariah Planet Armchair Fiction Anthology
March 2012 Cover The Murray Leinster Megapack Wildside Press Omnibus |27
September 2012 Cover Pariah Planet LibriVox Chapbook
October 2012 Cover Pariah Planet LibriVox Chapbook
July 2013 Cover Pariah Planet Spastic Cat Press Chapbook
December 2013 Cover Med Ship Baen Books Collection |505
February 2015 Cover Pariah Planet Sci-Fi Publishing Chapbook
November 2015 Cover The First Murray Leinster Megapack ® Wildside Press Omnibus |22
February 2017 Cover Murray Leinster Collection: Volume 2 Eternal Sun Books Omnibus 315