Series
Burl
Murray Leinster · 1 novel · 2 novellas · 1 novelette · 1920–1954
Murray Leinster's Burl sequence is set on a planet deliberately seeded with insect and plant life for later human colonization, but the follow-up mission meant to introduce animal life never arrived; over centuries the surviving flora and insects grew to monstrous size, leaving the marooned descendants of a crashed expedition to survive among ant colonies, giant wasps, and spiders. Burl, born into this stranded, near-primitive community, has to out-think these giant predators to keep his people alive. The story began as two 1920s pulp novellas and a 1953 sequel before Leinster fused all three into the single fix-up novel The Forgotten Planet.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Burl at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1920s2
- 1930s0
- 1940s0
- 1950s2
Shape
1 novel · 2 novellas · 1 novelette
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionsurvivalother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Mad Planetdarkest · calmest
- The Red Dustbrightest
- Nightmare Planetmost intense