Offered here is a vintage sci-fi novel by the
award winning American science fiction writer Poul Anderson (1926-2001).
This novel from the 1960s - Satan’s World
revolves around a planet that is falling out of
interstellar space into the heat of a Blue Giant Star. It will thaw out, then
fly back into the depths of space to freeze again. The transmutation
processes create great amounts of waste heat, and this planet will become the
perfect industrial planet if developed before it heads back into the deep
freeze. David Falkayn and his alien teammates Chee Lan and Adzel and others
also want this world, and another alien race is discovered that is a threat to
the Polesotechnic League
Title page reads:
Satan’s World – Poul Anderson – Published by
Doubleday & Company, New York, c. 1969. The copyright page notes that this
novel in a different form was published in Analog Science Fact-Fiction in May
through August in 1968.
This 204 page, 8 12/ by 5 ½ inch Book Club
Edition hardcover in fairly good condition. The pages are clear and the binding is
solid. The black cloth cover with white spine title has just a bit of wear
along the edges and a small dent along the top side of the front cover.. The dust jacket designed by Peter Bromley has just a bit of
wear along the edges and one small closed tear along the bottom edge of the
back panel of the jacket. There is a black and white photo of the author on the
back panel.
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