Four-Day Planet

2nd book of the Federation series

by H. Beam Piper

  • FREE
  • 156 pages
  • Year: 1961
  • ~17h 18m
  • ★★★★★

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A young reporter gets caught up in intrigue and adventure chasing tallow-wax bounties with the monster hunters on Fenris, a planet with a two-thousand-hour day and four-day year.

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Reminiscent of old whaling stories, Four-Day Planet follows the story of Walter Boyd, a scrappy 17-year-old reporter working for his father at the Port Sandor Times. Walt gets tied up in the adventures of the sea-monster hunters on Fenris - a barely-habitable planet with a 2,000-hour day. The prized - and only - commodity on Fenris is tallow-wax, a miraculous material harvested from the dangerous seas of the planet.

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