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100 1 _aAbernathy, Robert,
_d1924-1990
245 1 4 _aThe Dead-Star Rover
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Planet Stories Winter 1949
500 _aRelease date is 2021-03-04
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Dead-Star Rover" by Robert Abernathy is a science fiction novel likely written in the mid-20th century. The narrative unfolds in a desolate, war-torn world where two races—the Terrapins and the Bird-People—struggle for survival amidst mechanical predators. The story follows Torcred, a Terrapin warrior, who encounters Ladna, a bird-girl, after shooting down her flying machine, and must confront moral dilemmas as he navigates their fraught relationship against the backdrop of cultural conflict and personal transformation. At the start of the novel, readers are introduced to a tense scene where Torcred races through the desert in his combat vehicle, the Terrapin, only to come under attack from a Bird-People aircraft. After a harrowing chase and skirmish, he shoots down the enemy plane, discovering Ladna, the pilot, among the wreckage. Rather than killing her, Torcred decides to take her prisoner, setting off a series of events that force both characters to grapple with their prejudices and the shifting dynamics between their peoples. As they journey together through the desert, their relationship evolves against the backdrop of a larger conflict involving their respective races and the predatory machines that threaten them all. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aAdventure stories
700 1 _aMcWilliams, Al,
_d1916-1993
830 0 _aProduced from Planet Stories Winter 1949
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64690
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