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Planets of Adventure
Edited and compiled by

Eric Flint &
Guy Gordon
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is
purely coincidental.

The Forgotten Planet was Leinster's rewrite and novelization of three
novellas published previously: "The Mad Planet" (Argosy, June 1920),
"The Red Dust" (Argosy, April 1921), and "Nightmare Planet" (Science
Fiction Plus, June 1953). In the original first two stories, the adventure
was set on a far future Earth. The rewritten novel version was first
published by Gnome Press in 1954. The stories collected as The Planet
Explorer were originally published as four independent tales: "Sand
Doom" (Astounding, December 1955), "Combat Team" (originally
published as "Exploration Team," Astounding, March 1956), "Critical
Difference"—later retitled "Solar Constant"—(Astounding, July 1956),
"The Swamp Was Upside Down" (Astounding, September 1956). Leinster
rewrote the four stories to give them all the same protagonist and reissued
the stories under the title Colonial Survey, published by Gnome Press in
1956. The book was reissued in 1957 by Avon Press under the title The
Planet Explorer. "Anthropological Note" was first published in The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1957. "Scrimshaw" was
first published in Astounding, September 1955. "Assignment on Pasik"
was first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1949. The
author was listed as "William Fitzgerald," one of Leinster's pseudonyms.
"Regulations" was first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August
1948. "The Skit-Tree Planet" was first published in Thrilling Wonder
Stories, April 1947.

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ISBN: 0-7434-7162-8

Cover art by Bob Eggleton

First printing, October 2003

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