John Schoenherr è stato un illustratore americano celebrato per i suoi contributi alla fantascienza e all'arte naturalistica. Sviluppò una maestria unica nella tecnica del graffito su tavoletta, distinguendolo come artista commerciale specializzato. La sua profonda conoscenza della zoologia ha informato le sue vivide rappresentazioni di creature aliene, aggiungendo un livello di autenticità ai suoi mondi fantastici. Il lavoro acclamato di Schoenherr, riconosciuto con una Caldecott Medal, ha adornato numerosi libri e riviste.
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited Harry Harrison collection. Contents: - Deathworld - The Stainless Steel Rat - Planet of the Damned - The Repairman - The Misplaced Battleship - The Ethical Engineer - Toy Shop - Arm of the Law - The Velvet Glove - The K-Factor - Navy Day
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.