Earthman, Go Home!
Captain Dominic Flandry lands on a hermit world where every breath is poison and one agency holds the only antidote.
by Poul Anderson
About this book
Captain Sir Dominic Flandry is an intelligence officer in the Imperial Navy. Anderson wrote numerous novels and short stories about him. This is the second novel. He takes a side trip to the planet Unan Besar. Over the past three hundred years the planet has withdrawn from the rest of the universe. Upon landing he’s met by a member of the governing board of Biocontrol. The planet’s atmosphere is posionous to everyone, including visitors and they all have to take a pill every thirty days to stay alive. They want to know why he’s there. They don’t believe he just dropped in out of curiousity. Flandry manages to escape and ends up with Kemul The Mugger and the foxy Luanga in the planet’s criminal underworld. Since there’s virtually no policing the planet is riddled with criminal enterprises. Thanks to conning a warlord Flandry has enough money for them all to head towards his spaceship and enough money for pills. Biocontrol controls the vats where the antitoxin is made. They threaten to destroy them if their power is threatened. Since the pills are necessary for life there’s never been a revolution. The book follows Flandry through recapture and escape to the Tree People. There he senses the seeds of revolution. This is a fun book with an appealing hero who is not only a fighting warrior but one who has a bemused air as he observes the goings on around him. Flip it over for the story of Kate Bristol of Interworld Insurance as she tracks a murder suspect onboard a spaceship.
- Author
- Poul Anderson
- Length
- ~140 pages
- Reading time
- 2 h 48 min
- Chapters
- 16
- Released
- November 11, 2026
- Languages
- 🇬🇧 EN · 🇵🇱 PL · 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇪🇸 ES · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇧🇷 PT-BR · 🇲🇽 ES-MX · 🇵🇹 PT · 🇺🇦 UK · 🇨🇿 CS · 🇸🇰 SK · 🇬🇷 EL · 🇭🇺 HU · 🇹🇷 TR · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇷🇴 RO · 🇧🇬 BG · 🇭🇷 HR · 🇷🇸 SR · 🇸🇮 SL · 🇱🇹 LT · 🇱🇻 LV · 🇪🇪 ET · 🇸🇪 SV · 🇩🇰 DA · 🇳🇴 NB · 🇫🇮 FI · 🇯🇵 JA · 🇰🇷 KO · 🇨🇳 ZH · 🇹🇼 ZH-TW · 🇮🇩 ID · 🇻🇳 VI · 🇹🇭 TH · 🇮🇳 HI · 🇸🇦 AR · 🇮🇱 HE
- Formats
- eBook
- Print format
- Paperback, 11 × 18 cm, 130 pages
- Age rating
- Teen 13+
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