← Back

Planet of Dread

Murray Leinster

First published May 1962
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

● A man tries to commandandeer a spaceship to escape a murder charge only to be overwhelmed. But circumstances dictate that only five people can show up at any port, so he is to be stranded on the nearest planet. But, of course, things go wrong when treasure is found on the planet, along with giant insects. Then somebody gets greedy.

External Links

Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1962 Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1962 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 8
July 1968 The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, Fall 1968 Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. MAGAZINE 82
January 2011 Planet of Dread / Twice Upon a Time Armchair Fiction Omnibus
June 2013 Planet of Dread Project Gutenberg Chapbook
July 2013 Planet of Dread LibriVox Chapbook
October 2014 The Baen Big Book of Monsters Baen Books Anthology 311
December 2015 The Second Murray Leinster Megapack ® Wildside Press Omnibus |1
February 2017 Murray Leinster Collection: Volume 2 Eternal Sun Books Omnibus 475
2020 Black Infinity, Summer 2020 Rocket Science Books MAGAZINE 174