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Title: The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster ISBN: 0-89968-350-9 Publisher: Lightyear Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Murray Leinster- Triumph over adversity
Comment: "The Forgotten Planet," by Murray Leinster.

The first Murray Leinster story I read was the Hugo winning "Exploration Team." It is a story about human triumph over a hostile environment through decisive, determined effort and teamwork. Reading it made me curious about other works by Mr. Leinster. I went looking and found The Forgotten Planet at the Largo Public Library.

Forgotten Planet's human inhabitants arrive forty generations before the time of the story action. Shipwrecked on a nightmarish planet more suited to gigantic mushrooms and behemoth insects, humanity becomes little more than prey for larger, more prolific, better-armed predators. Human survival is in doubt by the time the prologue ends and the story begins.

By a happy accident or fate, the central character, Burl enters into a series of situations that helps him to marginally improve the circumstances of his fellows. He develops the habit of leadership, and his people learn to work together in new ways under his leadership. Through strong leadership and by working together, his people learn to overcome adversity and prosper.

The setting of The Forgotten Planet is ingenious in its imagination and yet plausibly set up in the prologue. Mr. Leinster takes the commonplace and makes it extraordinary. But the Lowland ecology is more than an exercise in sci-fi imagination. It is a metaphor for that which prevents humans from reaching their full potential individually and collectively. Once Burl's followers escape from the limitations of the Lowlands, they are able to assume their rightful place in the universe.

This story is refreshingly positive in its outlook. Too much sci fi second guesses or whines about our role in the universe as humnas and as Americans. Forgotten Planet was written in a time when Americans felt good about their country and themselves. It is a story worth remembering.

Rating: 5
Summary: Forgotten Planet, not a forgotten book
Comment: I read this book in 1956 while aboard ship in the Navy. It did what school had not been able to accomplish. I was captivated by the story, which filled the spaces of possiblility. I almost never read before this book, and have been an avid reader of not only Sci-Fi, but all written material since.

Rating: 5
Summary: Fantasy Classic
Comment: This is a well-written fantasy about a group of people stranded on a distant planet. The plot, diction, usage, and characterizations of this author are world-class.