 Okay, this book is truly awful. I mean, it's really really bad when I was in fifth grade I thought it was the greatest thing I've ever read it was my introduction to Robert Silverberg and because of my experience reading this book I always regarded Silverberg as a great author and he is but as an adult I find this book unreadable It's about a fugitive from Earth who runs to a planet where literally Everything is trying to kill you every blade of grass every puddle of mud everything. It sounds awesome But it's not I would recommend this only if you want to see an example of a really bad book for a laugh When I first read the book as a child I had checked it out from a library in a community near where I grew up in the late 90s I had the opportunity to drive through that community. So I stopped at that library and There was the book Sitting in the same spot on the same shelf where I had found it all those years ago I looked at the checkout slip and the last person to check it out was me in the 1970s I spoke to the librarian and offered to buy the book and they said no So I went online found this copy and has this amazing dust cover and everything But I found in my horror that I had remembered it all wrong