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Deathworld 2 (1964)

di Harry Harrison

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Prolific science fiction dynamo Harry Harrison is perhaps best remembered as the creator of the story upon which the cult classic Soylent Green was based. His popular Deathworld series is also regarded as a masterwork of golden-era science fiction. In the volume The Ethical Engineer, which was also published under the title Deathworld 2, protagonist Jason dinAlt is kidnapped and attempts a daring escape among a primitive civilization for which time seems to have run backward.

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This book is very different to the first Deathworld Book. Jason is kidnapped (almost voluntarily because he's silly) by Mikah who wants him to be held responsible for his crimes. But on the way, Jason crashes the ship on a planet that is inhabited by a planet inhabited by people who follow a slave-based culture. The two are captured and travel the desert in search of food with Mikah wanting to fight for his freedom (to the death if needed) and Jason wanting to figure out a way to exploit the system for his. I enjoyed the discussions around morality, but I do think slavery was a bit of an uncomfortable choice (it gets pretty close to being slavery apologist). Both Mikah and Jason were also incredibly frustrating (in different ways), the world bringing out the worst in them. I did find the world building interesting though and wonder where the third book will take us. ( )
  TheAceOfPages | Mar 23, 2024 |
I love old school science fiction. These are a little bit dopey, but still a lot of fun. Lots of good gaming ideas. ( )
  bibliosk8er | Aug 16, 2018 |
Another good story by Harrison. In some ways I liked this one even better then the first one. Guess that's why I'm giving this one 4 stars. Great imagination. Our protagonist is in constant conflict with bad and/or unwise characters on less then ideal worlds. This is a theme in which Harrison excels. ( )
  ikeman100 | Feb 4, 2018 |
Human beings have come to inhabit a world that is completely toxic to them. Gravity is twice normal, weather is brutal, geologically the planet still seems in an early stage of formation with constant volcanic eruptions and frequent quakes, and most importantly, all animal and plant life is venomous and hostile. In the beginning, the novel gives some hints of how society morphs to adapt to such an environment, and I thought that would be an idea to pursue further--but that is not this book.

Turns out this book has an old-fashioned moral to it. It's not a bad moral, and it's one that's relevant to our times (as I'm sure it would have been to many times in the past).

The moral comes in the penultimate chapter, and the book would have been a fine one if it had just ended there. We've had plenty of adventure and suspense to this time, and the moral makes a fine capper. But then a final chapter becomes overly preachy. Too bad. It was fine as it was. ( )
  kvrfan | Aug 19, 2016 |
Originally posted at FanLit.
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/deathworld-2-the-ethical-engineer/

Deathworld 2: The Ethical Engineer is the second of Harry Harrison??s novels set on Pyrrus, the planet that tries to kill most humans who set foot upon it. In the first DEATHWORLD novel, space rogue Jason dinAlt discovered the secret of Pyrrus and negotiated a very tense peace between the planet and its two human colonies.

Now Jason has a new problem. A man named Mikah, who represents the religious Truth Party, has arrived to arrest Jason for fleecing casinos across the universe. The purpose is to display Jasonƒ??s decadence and sinfulness so that they can topple the government of Cassylia which has been using ƒ??Jason Three-Billionƒ? as a poster child to advertise their casinos. Mikah kidnaps Jason and on their way back to Cassylia for trial by the Truth Party, they are shipwrecked and enslaved on a planet that sports a curious mix of primitive tribal cultures with varying degrees of technological advancement. Jason must use his knowledge and skills to get them off the planet.

Harry Harrison is great when heƒ??s writing pulpy science fiction adventures with roguish protagonists. I loved the first few books of his STAINLESS STEEL RAT series, which were just that. But sometimes Harrison decides to acquire an agenda and whomp us over the head with it. This happened with some of the later STAINLESS STEEL RAT books (I stopped reading them because of it) and itƒ??s happened here in Deathworld 2.

In this case, Harrison wants to show us that people who believe in some sort of Truth are just wrong. Thatƒ??s fine. I donƒ??t agree, but itƒ??s fine with me if Harrison takes that viewpoint. The problem here is that itƒ??s so badly done. Harrison makes his point in two ways. First by making Mikah, Truthƒ??s proponent (and an obvious Straw Man), a ridiculous idiot who gets frustrated with Jason and keeps resorting to calling him names such as ƒ??Limb of Satan.ƒ? Second by defending his no-Truth argument merely by having it said over and over by a character weƒ??re supposed to think is smart and knowledgeable because heƒ??s suddenly a brilliant engineer. There is no substantial discussion, just a back and forth like this:

ƒ??There is no Truth, no Life, no Mankind. At least not the way you spell them ƒ?? with capital letters. They donƒ??t exist.ƒ?

Mikahƒ??s taut skin contracted into a furrow of concentration. ƒ??You will have to explain yourself,ƒ? he said. ƒ??For you are not being clear.ƒ?

ƒ??Iƒ??m afraid itƒ??s you who arenƒ??t being clear. Youƒ??re making a reality where none exists. Truth ƒ?? with a small t ƒ?? is a description, a relationship. A way to describe a statement. A semantic tool. But Truth with a capital T is an imaginary word, a noise with no meaning. It pretends to be a noun, but it has no referent. It stands for nothing. It means nothing. When you say, ƒ??I believe in Truth,ƒ?? you are really saying ƒ??I believe in nothing.ƒ??ƒ?

Gosh, it sounds like Terry Goodkind, doesnƒ??t it? Both characters become self-righteous zealots who constantly interrupt the action to bore us with long meaningless lectures about the nature of Truth. This made it impossible to enjoy the story and I ended up skimming a lot of it. I hope DEATHWORLD will get back on track with book 3.

Iƒ??m listening to the audio version of Deathworld 2 that Jimcin Recordings produced in 2011 and which was just produced on CD and distributed by Brilliance Audio. Jim Roberts does a fine job with the narration. His rhythm is stilted sometimes, but he has a good voice for this sort of story. ( )
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All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;
All Discord, Harmony not understood;
All partial Evil, Universal good;
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,
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Jason dinAlt looked unhappily at the two stretchers as they were carried by.
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Currently known SSNs for this work are:
0722143516; 0722144172; 0722144849; 2277211508; 3453305418;
8085384051; 8787757001; 9637457968; 0441142699.

Alternate titles:
The Ethical Engineer;
Appsala. Le monde de la mort, tome 2;
Die Sklavenwelt;
Druhá planeta smrti : Druhá samost. část světoznámé trilogie o planetách smrti;
Slavernes verden;
Halálvilág 2.
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. HTML:

Prolific science fiction dynamo Harry Harrison is perhaps best remembered as the creator of the story upon which the cult classic Soylent Green was based. His popular Deathworld series is also regarded as a masterwork of golden-era science fiction. In the volume The Ethical Engineer, which was also published under the title Deathworld 2, protagonist Jason dinAlt is kidnapped and attempts a daring escape among a primitive civilization for which time seems to have run backward.

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