by Harry Harrison · Orbit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780722144435
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«Plague from Space» is the science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, published by Orbit in paperback (154 pages, in English).
After returning from Jupiter, the ship Pericles brings a deadly threat: Commander Rand emerges disfigured and on the brink of death. Doctor Sam Bertolli, the first man to attend to him, becomes the only line of defense against an epidemic that threatens to extinguish life on Earth.
The first British edition was by Victor Gollancz in 1966; Sphere had published this novel earlier under the title The Jupiter Legacy. This edition is from 1978.
For fans of science fiction and Harry Harrison, especially his novels from the 1960s.
Harry Max Harrison was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
