The Planet Killers: Three Novels of the Spaceways (The Plot Against Earth; The Planet Killers; One of Our Asteroids is Missing)

This trio of early short novels by Grand Master Robert Silverberg is straight-up pulp science fiction at its finest As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though written quickly, Silverberg{u2019}s early prose already showed evidence of the literary and imaginative qualities that would make him a giant in the field. Here are three of his best early works. In The Planet Killers, after Earth{u2019}s supercomputer calculates that the inhabitants of the planet Lurion will destroy Earth in sixty-seven years, Roy Gardner is sent to stop them{u2014}by any means necessary. In The Plot Against Earth, Special Investigator Lloyd Catton{u2019}s efforts to crack a ring of ?hypnojewel? traffickers uncovers a galaxy-wide conspiracy. And in One of Our Asteroids Is Missing, when miner John Storm stakes claim to an asteroid with a king{u2019}s ransom of rare minerals, he{u2019}s set for life{u2014}or would be, if his discovery didn{u2019}t also mark him for death