Everything about the planet revolving about Sigma Draconis seemed to indicate that here was a world that could be made into a second Earth. It was fertile and lacked native inhabitants and dangerous beasts. Then what was troubling the pioneer colony that had landed and set up shop there? Was it really possible just to create a new Earth on any vacant world waiting a landing? Or was there a lot more to planetary ecologies than humanity realized? The problem is faced in this brilliant new novel by the talented hand of John Brunner, and it is a problem more complex (and yet devilishly simpler) than might be supposed. Here is a novel of interstellar colonization that is also a novel of human adventure and the desperate plight of the one man who thought he knew what was making a heavenly body into the Bedlam Planet.

Genre: Science Fiction