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Four-Day Planet
Chapters (21)
- Dedication 0:00
- The Ship from Terra 0:07
- Reporter Working 24:27
- Bottom Level 45:42
- Main City Level 1:04:30
- Meeting Out of Order 1:22:29
- Elementary, My Dear Kivelson 1:41:35
- Aboard the Javelin 1:56:30
- Practice, 50 mm Gun 2:11:40
- Monster Killing 2:27:34
- Mayday, Mayday 2:39:38
- Darkness and Cold 2:55:13
- Castaways Working 3:09:36
- The Beacon Light 3:20:49
- The Rescue 3:30:24
- Vigilantes 3:41:47
- Civil War Postponed 4:03:20
- Tallow-Wax Fire 4:17:39
- The Treason of Bish Ware 4:35:55
- Masks Off 4:53:28
- Finale 5:23:25
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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.
While being set in a grand sci-fi universe, the book packs in more about intrigue, betrayal, and the grit required to survive on a backwater planet of the Federation. The book was later re-published as a “two-for-one” with Lone Star Planet (originally titled A Planet for Texans).