- science fiction, unconventional warfare, Fiction, science fiction, general, English Science fiction
You could summarize this story as action/adventure and still do it a disservice. This is about an agent dropped on an enemy planet with one goal: to disrupt, distract, and generally raise hell with the planetary administration in a textbook example of unconventional psychological warfare.
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Cool, plot-driven, classical in form and unpretentious.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Eric Frank Russell
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Dobson, Avalon Books, Del Rey
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575070950
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Eric Frank Russell (1905–1978) was a prominent British science fiction author known for his witty, often satirical, and anti-authoritarian stories published largely in American pulp magazines. A key figure in the 1950s, he is best known for novels Wasp and Sinister Barrier, and for winning the 1955 Hugo Award for his short story "Allamagoosa".
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