Four-Day Planet
"Four-Day Planet" . . . where the killing heat of a thousand-hour "day" drives men underground, and the glorious hundred-hour s... read full description
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Nov 11, 2011
Gregory
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The young man Walt, the only reporter on a treacherous planet tells the news on a dangerous planet. He dreams of one day being honored with the ability to be able to hunt for monsters and the profitable wax that come from them. He also yearns to be taken seriously by the leaders of his community, through his truthful telling of the news. The story explores the dissemination of language; what language needs to be heard in order to maintain civilization in a cultural outpost. The book More...
Jul 22, 2008
B. Zedan
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Kid reporter! Mixed up in an uprising against a despot! Oh past future, you and your science-y vision of the newspaper world, with easily portable film cameras that relay back to the paper offices, and laser and UV plate engraving, to be cut out and hand pasted up. Mind you, two years after I worked hand paste up for the yearbook, I was using computers to lay out the school paper—while simultaneously taking an advanced graphics course that taught hand paste up. Sidebar: the word in the i
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Oct 26, 2011
Robyn
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A fun young adult sci-fi novel about a teen reporter on a planet where monster whale hunting is the main occupation. A great fun read that really brings alive the setting to the point where you feel like you could walk down the street of the place. Good ending too.
Jul 31, 2011
Brett's
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Not really science fiction, instead the book is an economic/political thriller set on a planet that happens to have only 4 days in a (365 day) typical calendar year. I didn't like it.
Aug 10, 2011
This story was going well weeks ago, but I has to put it down when the ePub file became corrupted. Now Goodreads mysteriously has a button I can press that takes me straight to a built-in reader. I'll zip through the rest of this when I finally get done with Niven's Fleet of Worlds.
Jan 03, 2011
Heather
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3.5 stars if I could. It's a whaling adventure novel...IN SPACE!!!1!! Reads a lot like the juvenile Heinleins with our intrepid and humble late-teen hero.
Dec 19, 2007
Tracey
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Action-adventure juvie with socio-economics thrown in. More entertaining than it sounds.. Heinleinesque, if you're into that sort of thing.
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