Deathworld (novella) by Harry Harrison Published 1960 ~ Astounding Science Fiction This audiobook has been carefully edited, enhanced and optimised. Enjoy this alien tale by legendary SF author Harry Harrison
Now that some of my grandchildren are old enough to appreciate Science Fiction, you can bet your a** I will be gifting them copies of Harry Harrison's works! Thank you for the great memories ❣️
@@Blind_Prime hi, I am going to go with the😮 Stainless Steel Rat series from the 60's.....those stories are fantastic and tickled my imagination....wow, can you imagine a screen play based on any of his earlier novels?! Cheers 🍻
I wish my granddad would have gifted me Harry Harrison while he was alive, I wouldn't have been 40 years old before I found his books lol!! I'm currently voraciously reading all of his books trying to make up for lost time 😊.
It's amazing how I got to read this book twice (25 years ago) and both times in other languages, but hearing it in English brought back the same faces, memories and images. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ❤️
this book is dope, millennial here, there is something about the pre-1969 space race literature, that in my opinion, get these scifi stories great imagination. I've been getting into these older sci fi stories, so much more interesting
If you ever go around Jacksonville, Fl. check out Chamblins Used Book store there...I'm no expert by a long shot but I'm a reader.....and due to the fact that readin's becoming sort of a luxury....I see only one solution....used books.....thanks!
I get Audio books and read online or on "Kindle." I can no longer see well enough to read books or newspapers. I need 14 to 16 point type. because I can street signs and traffic signals, I intend to buy motor cycle in 2017
I used to ride motorcycles when I was in my 20s ... now I'm in my 60s ... bought a motorcycle and ride every chance I get.... timeline getting shorter ...cant ride forever... but I can today!
I gave up my dog-eared and dilapidated Deathworld Trilogy when I moved cross country for my first after-college job. So glad to find this video. Thank you! Blessings be!
I'm so glad that I discovered your channel. I was a Sci-Fi fan in my young day's and lived in my Sci-Fi world. Now I'm retired and can listen to all these amazing stories. Your'e channel is a gem!!👍👍😊😊 and inspired me to start my own Sci-Fi channel
this was great mate. Love this story and this author. you get the feeling while listening to this book that many of the horror elements of scifi in the contemporary can be traced back to some of these creative creatures. xenos from Alien are an example. some super evolving hyper predator that is out for human flesh. though there are not enough scifi horror stories about insects and this book has some horrific insects in it
P thank you for this video book what a great book so I thank you and look forward to more the same . What a really nice book you know it's got sci-fi in it and it's 1960 sci-fi so it's like you know old school yet it was a great story sincerely us, Bob the blind bedroom guitarist
Avatar was a combination of Deathworld by Harry Harrison, Call me Joe by Poul Anderson and, in my opinion, with elements of another story called A Case of Conscience by James Blish. I still wonder why these stories weren't credited at least as inspiration as its only fair and it's not as though the film didn't make enough money to afford royalties if they were due. I see this a lot in film making culture, although it's not the only place it is found in abundance - but that's the culture of egotistical denial in Hollywood a lot of the time. Check out the other two stories if you can find them - you'll enjoy them!
yes to Call Me Joe. i read A Case of Conscience so long ago that i've forgotten it. can you refresh my memory? oh, i'll just google it. EVERYTHING by James Blish is great! for all of love ...
Call Me Joe is a great story. Thanks for mentioning. I think Avatar took more from that than Deathworld. Avatar is more of a combo of Call Me Joe and Dances with Wolves, in my opinion--gonna check out A Case of Conscience now.
Avatar's got nothing on Pyrrhus -- even the grass is lethal. Avatar is where Pyrrhans go to relax! Love this book and always wished for a movie, but I guess Avatar ruined that prospect :(
Deathworld Trilogy >>>>> Avatar, which is just another stereotypical Hollyweird "Business bad. Noble savages good." piece-of-shit movie. Great effects. Wonderful spectacle. Juvenile writing and themes, with about as much depth as a thimble.
Thanks so much for posting this book. I read it as a kid while living in the Soviet Union. Brought back memories. I just wish Harrison did not attack faith here. It's ironic that he wrote a story against hatred while hating God.
Awesome book, I really enjoyed it. I do wish there was a better title for it. Deathworld sounds cheap/cheesy and does no justice for this clever and well written story.
You know what, I might animated it, kinda like motion comic. I just need to find good voice actors. Upload it like a series. Episodes instead of chapter.
Thanks for upload. Had this years ago (the deathworld omnibus) and lost it Also a humorous post apoc kinda story where a global war started due to a huge bird detected on a soviet radar system I occasionally try to remember the name of that book & try scouring the internet for it but never find it 🐒
This is all more nostalgia for me. I love the magazine covers you use; especially the ones with chicks. Where do you find them all? I love Harrison's ideas & originality. You can't help but like his protagonists. Thank you Newthink. Your site rocks! Ash
yes I'd like to thank you also for all the audio video audiobooks you put up I love listening to them I'm severely legally blind and haven't been able to read anything for many many years decades at this point I used to be able to see and I used to read voraciously period so thank you again the more that these you post the same that you make my life LOL I guess you'll notice there's no punctuation and probably a lot of misspelled words but hopefully what I try to comment is understandable. Are you speech to text and it has its own take on the English language LOL sincerely yours, Bob the blind bedroom guitarist
Liquidazot Actually, the Zerg were based on the Tyranids from Warhammer 40K/Games Workshop. GW worked with Blizzard on a 40K/Space Marine based game. Blizz screwed off, dicked around and got their licensing revoked by GW. They were sued, Hard, after they released StarCraft, with content based on the work done with GW. As to where GW got the idea for 'Nids, I can't say.
At 1:18:00, the rock scene, reminds me of when i was climbing Telendos years ago. I sat down on a rock, and a minute later dozens of black scorpions came out. I left that mountain fast.
Deathworld - 1961 - ok, a whole world with one woman but at least, this time, she is part of the world and has an important place in it. and i do love this book - fun and well written. . . reader is very good, too. . . thanks :} omg at 4:14 the women of the "grubbers' are mentioned - they didn't even serve as healers. imagine - i thought there weren't any LOL
yeah, as much as Games Workshop jealously guards their IP... lol. they ganked ALL of their ideas from other science fiction/space opera and welded it together then stamped a copyright on it. kinda ridiculous.
Yes. Just slapped a puerile "business is greedy and ruthless" theme, typical of ivory-tower elites, who prefer savages in loincloths, and would be happier if the rest of us were reduced to such a state.
Harrison really gets you into a story even if you think you won't be interested. Hey, love the accent. Check out "Philly Guy at Waterpark." Get outta the wudder!
Tbh I can't think of any other sci Fi trilogies that could top the deathworld trilogy. The first alien trilogy and predator trilogy maybe, they are more equals than betters.
I was entertained, but I'd call it B level. The solutions come too easy. If it really is a world with deadly things everywhere, it'd be impossible to breathe. I wish the aspects of the planet really were super deadly, as in: everyone has to wear a spacesuit or die (that's pretty much a normal thing on planets anyway, but not here). It'd be interesting and a really intense feeling. Jason even camps out and isn't bitten by a bug. It's like you're not thinking about all the options that are really available to these people because it wasn't written that way. Specifically evolved animals don't really camp out around a perimeter--I know they're drawn to the Pyrrans, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't drift away to look for food and find Jason camping (not to mention the killer mold and all that that would naturally grow anywhere). A far cry from "deathworld"--it's more like deathtown. I'd think they would have touched down on a place 100 miles away and lived in relative safety. Even if they hate the beasts outside, I don't think the Pyrrans were past living elsewhere. Really good sci fi is able to make you look at life in a new way. Not the best here, but also not bad entertainment.
Hi Jacob, your comment is fair enough but you are commenting from a perspective 50 years in the future... And you have read the book, so know the answers our hero found. Its like you are a writer yourself and you would have made it more complex and thrilling, but its written 50 years ago, before internet, cellphones and everything HD 8k and thrilling. How do you know what's normal on any planet? If you wrote a sequel you could change it imho, otherwise don't complain please Sir.
you sound like you haven't read too much science fiction. there's a saying " the science fiction of today will be science fact tomorrow "... keep reading.
You could argue that insects aren't a high-enough life form to respond to psychic influence. Just don't have the mental equipment. He could've written that into Deathworld, but not without distorting the story just to please a few pathological doubters.
Thank you for the memories! As a sight disabled person, being able to listen to some of my favorites is real treat.
bet you can't see this!
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Now that some of my grandchildren are old enough to appreciate Science Fiction, you can bet your a** I will be gifting them copies of Harry Harrison's works! Thank you for the great memories ❣️
I have grown great grands I've hooked on sci Fi! How great it is!
whats your favorite book of his? personally my favorite is 'The Ethical Engineer' the sequel to this one.
@@Blind_Prime hi, I am going to go with the😮 Stainless Steel Rat series from the 60's.....those stories are fantastic and tickled my imagination....wow, can you imagine a screen play based on any of his earlier novels?!
Cheers 🍻
I wish my granddad would have gifted me Harry Harrison while he was alive, I wouldn't have been 40 years old before I found his books lol!! I'm currently voraciously reading all of his books trying to make up for lost time 😊.
It's amazing how I got to read this book twice (25 years ago) and both times in other languages, but hearing it in English brought back the same faces, memories and images. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ❤️
I read these books when I was a teenager . That was a long time ago . 😁
this book is dope, millennial here, there is something about the pre-1969 space race literature, that in my opinion, get these scifi stories great imagination. I've been getting into these older sci fi stories, so much more interesting
I'd forgotten how much I enjoy Harry Harrisons' stories. Looking forward to going through the whole list. Thanks for posting!
Rat!
I first read this in the early 1960's A 35 cent paperback book. I used to buy 3 a week at $1;05 a week
If you ever go around Jacksonville, Fl. check out Chamblins Used Book store there...I'm no expert by a long shot but I'm a reader.....and due to the fact that readin's becoming sort of a luxury....I see only one solution....used books.....thanks!
I get Audio books and read online or on "Kindle." I can no longer see well enough to read books or newspapers. I need 14 to 16 point type. because I can street signs and traffic signals, I intend to buy motor cycle in 2017
I dread the day when I cannot read...so far I'm doing Ok...drug store reading glasses...
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I used to ride motorcycles when I was in my 20s ... now I'm in my 60s ... bought a motorcycle and ride every chance I get.... timeline getting shorter ...cant ride forever... but I can today!
Loved this story, and the two that followed it. Thanks for sharing this. I’ve read it a few times over the years.
I gave up my dog-eared and dilapidated Deathworld Trilogy when I moved cross country for my first after-college job. So glad to find this video. Thank you! Blessings be!
I LOVED these Books!
Harry Harrison is the DADDY!
sure !
I would love to see an filming of the series of novels "Deathworld", especially if some good director takes it off.
Thinking the same thing!
@@gossamer8842 what?
if it was made like an 80's action movie.
I read this back in the 70s but I don't remember exactly when. I do remember liking it and I'm looking forward to listening to it.
The narrator deserves more voice over work and attention. He is the only voice i can hear when i think of jason or any deathworld book.
Awesome narration job. Thanks for sharing 👊
I'm so glad that I discovered your channel. I was a Sci-Fi fan in my young day's and lived in my Sci-Fi world. Now I'm retired and can listen to all these amazing stories. Your'e channel is a gem!!👍👍😊😊 and inspired me to start my own Sci-Fi channel
Good story, very well read.
thank you for uploading this
I was searching for that kind of sci fi . I'm really happy about this reading!!!
this was great mate. Love this story and this author. you get the feeling while listening to this book that many of the horror elements of scifi in the contemporary can be traced back to some of these creative creatures. xenos from Alien are an example. some super evolving hyper predator that is out for human flesh. though there are not enough scifi horror stories about insects and this book has some horrific insects in it
P thank you for this video book what a great book so I thank you and look forward to more the same . What a really nice book you know it's got sci-fi in it and it's 1960 sci-fi so it's like you know old school yet it was a great story sincerely us, Bob the blind bedroom guitarist
Great story thanks for posting.
God I read this in the 70s, When I was a kid, Loved it 💓.
I quite enjoyed this book!
I was listening to this story a year ago and lost the link and couldn't remember the title. I've found it again! Thanks for posting!
Avatar was a combination of Deathworld by Harry Harrison, Call me Joe by Poul Anderson and, in my opinion, with elements of another story called A Case of Conscience by James Blish. I still wonder why these stories weren't credited at least as inspiration as its only fair and it's not as though the film didn't make enough money to afford royalties if they were due. I see this a lot in film making culture, although it's not the only place it is found in abundance - but that's the culture of egotistical denial in Hollywood a lot of the time. Check out the other two stories if you can find them - you'll enjoy them!
yes to Call Me Joe. i read A Case of Conscience so long ago that i've forgotten it. can you refresh my memory? oh, i'll just google it. EVERYTHING by James Blish is great! for all of love ...
Call Me Joe is a great story. Thanks for mentioning. I think Avatar took more from that than Deathworld. Avatar is more of a combo of Call Me Joe and Dances with Wolves, in my opinion--gonna check out A Case of Conscience now.
Thanks! I'll check them out!
Larry Nivens 'Legacy of Heurot' portrays an equally lethal world, then 'Dragons of Heurot' shows new citizens attitudes being their homeworld
This was one of the first sci-fi books I read as a kid.
Me too. 2.0 gravity?
Great adventure story and The Ethical Engineer is a good sequel.
I liked a lot to re-read it. Thanks!
Thanks for posting this, very much enjoyed.
thanks a lot,great story!
Avatar's got nothing on Pyrrhus -- even the grass is lethal. Avatar is where Pyrrhans go to relax! Love this book and always wished for a movie, but I guess Avatar ruined that prospect :(
Right on!
Why not? It's not a dead end. There's always ANIMATION, Especially, hand drawn animation. I don't get this kind of thinking.
So true. Now they stream everything
Deathworld Trilogy >>>>> Avatar, which is just another stereotypical Hollyweird "Business bad. Noble savages good." piece-of-shit movie. Great effects. Wonderful spectacle. Juvenile writing and themes, with about as much depth as a thimble.
Pandora isn’t meant to be a deathworld; it’s just incredibly harsh.
The name and the cover are cooler than the actual plot.
Thanks so much for posting this book. I read it as a kid while living in the Soviet Union. Brought back memories. I just wish Harrison did not attack faith here. It's ironic that he wrote a story against hatred while hating God.
Enjoyed..thanks.
That is a very long but interesting story. It kept me on the edge my seat at times.
wow thanks for the up load, ended up staying up all night listening to this got hooked and wanted to se how it ended.
love it
This is a great book, thanks for posting!
Especially great message at 5:02:30 (its about mental and social inertia)
Awesome book, I really enjoyed it. I do wish there was a better title for it. Deathworld sounds cheap/cheesy and does no justice for this clever and well written story.
Great story, thanks
You know what, I might animated it, kinda like motion comic. I just need to find good voice actors. Upload it like a series. Episodes instead of chapter.
Thanks for upload.
Had this years ago (the deathworld omnibus) and lost it
Also a humorous post apoc kinda story where a global war started due to a huge bird detected on a soviet radar system
I occasionally try to remember the name of that book & try scouring the internet for it but never find it 🐒
1:33:00 I always thought this was the best argument ever written. People who disagree are bat shit crazy. 1:33:20
Thanks for sharing this gem.
Good observation.
I've never been into audiobooks,preferring one in my hand, but this as a classic I've read before has been a fun introduction to them!
Just came across this lastnight and what a great story
Thank you for posting this! I wish this was a movie or game.
This is all more nostalgia for me. I love the magazine covers you use; especially the ones with chicks. Where do you find them all? I love Harrison's ideas & originality. You can't help but like his protagonists. Thank you Newthink. Your site rocks! Ash
yes I'd like to thank you also for all the audio video audiobooks you put up I love listening to them I'm severely legally blind and haven't been able to read anything for many many years decades at this point I used to be able to see and I used to read voraciously period so thank you again the more that these you post the same that you make my life LOL I guess you'll notice there's no punctuation and probably a lot of misspelled words but hopefully what I try to comment is understandable. Are you speech to text and it has its own take on the English language LOL sincerely yours, Bob the blind bedroom guitarist
Read these again last year after 10 year gap
Great late night audiobook now
The future is here😀
Eye Love It !
Aliens animals described in this book is a base for ZERGs! Blizzard is truly oryginal brand
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Liquidazot
Actually, the Zerg were based on the Tyranids from Warhammer 40K/Games Workshop. GW worked with Blizzard on a 40K/Space Marine based game. Blizz screwed off, dicked around and got their licensing revoked by GW. They were sued, Hard, after they released StarCraft, with content based on the work done with GW.
As to where GW got the idea for 'Nids, I can't say.
Terran Marines are based on Heimline's Star Ship Troopers.
At 1:18:00, the rock scene, reminds me of when i was climbing Telendos years ago. I sat down on a rock, and a minute later dozens of black scorpions came out. I left that mountain fast.
The sudden ending just made me want. More
Soylent Green is people!
I like to think all the deathworlder stories on Reddit stem from here
Never heard of this guy. I've read zillions of si fi but this is the first comic story. "Sorry your here"!!!!
Deathworld - 1961 - ok, a whole world with one woman but at least, this time, she is part of the world and has an important place in it. and i do love this book - fun and well written. . . reader is very good, too. . . thanks :}
omg at 4:14 the women of the "grubbers' are mentioned - they didn't even serve as healers. imagine - i thought there weren't any LOL
Can see where Games Workshop got the idea for Catachan. It´s even refered to as a "Death World".
yeah, as much as Games Workshop jealously guards their IP... lol. they ganked ALL of their ideas from other science fiction/space opera and welded it together then stamped a copyright on it. kinda ridiculous.
The art here reminded me of the cover to Expedition to The Barrier Peaks,
Does anyone agree that James Cameron might have got a lot of ideas from Deathworld? ?
Yes. Just slapped a puerile "business is greedy and ruthless" theme, typical of ivory-tower elites, who prefer savages in loincloths, and would be happier if the rest of us were reduced to such a state.
james Cameron...? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. That Hollywood hack thief? No way
Harrison really gets you into a story even if you think you won't be interested.
Hey, love the accent. Check out "Philly Guy at Waterpark." Get outta the wudder!
i feel like Avatar owes a lot to this series
Good read.
Tbh I can't think of any other sci Fi trilogies that could top the deathworld trilogy. The first alien trilogy and predator trilogy maybe, they are more equals than betters.
enjoy mucho mucho; )
One of my favorites. I am 60
Me too! I'm 80.
ahh so that's where GW got the bolter and Catachan
@3:47:05 “Death From Orgasm” would be my choice,,,
Просто супер!!
Who is this reader? I really enjoy his readings
Harry pronounced it "PEER-us." Three Astounding / Analog serials (each expanded into a novel) in an arc), and one final short story.
Kirk makes Indiana Jones look like a boy scout!
Reminds me of Arrakis and the Fremen!
Reminds me of Med ship man by Murray Lienster.
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Authors name is Harry Harrison. Wow
deathworld is a trilogy
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I was entertained, but I'd call it B level. The solutions come too easy. If it really is a world with deadly things everywhere, it'd be impossible to breathe. I wish the aspects of the planet really were super deadly, as in: everyone has to wear a spacesuit or die (that's pretty much a normal thing on planets anyway, but not here). It'd be interesting and a really intense feeling. Jason even camps out and isn't bitten by a bug. It's like you're not thinking about all the options that are really available to these people because it wasn't written that way. Specifically evolved animals don't really camp out around a perimeter--I know they're drawn to the Pyrrans, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't drift away to look for food and find Jason camping (not to mention the killer mold and all that that would naturally grow anywhere). A far cry from "deathworld"--it's more like deathtown. I'd think they would have touched down on a place 100 miles away and lived in relative safety. Even if they hate the beasts outside, I don't think the Pyrrans were past living elsewhere. Really good sci fi is able to make you look at life in a new way. Not the best here, but also not bad entertainment.
Hi Jacob,
your comment is fair enough but you are commenting from a perspective 50 years in the future...
And you have read the book, so know the answers our hero found.
Its like you are a writer yourself and you would have made it more complex and thrilling, but its written 50 years ago, before internet, cellphones and everything HD 8k and thrilling.
How do you know what's normal on any planet?
If you wrote a sequel you could change it imho, otherwise don't complain please Sir.
you sound like you haven't read too much science fiction. there's a saying " the science fiction of today will be science fact tomorrow "... keep reading.
You could argue that insects aren't a high-enough life form to respond to psychic influence. Just don't have the mental equipment. He could've written that into Deathworld, but not without distorting the story just to please a few pathological doubters.
Relax killer, it's fiction. Wtf?
They messed up comment section???
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Looks like avatar was remix of this story!!
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call me joe
hey joe, heard you shot your old lady down.
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Links with Avatar. Also Dune by Frank Herbert.
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The guns are always loaded there is no safety no trigger guards...yikes get me outta there!
Love to own a weapon like that. Explosive rounds?
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