Sci-fi

Destiny Doll

by Clifford D. Simak
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Description

The Planet beckoned them from space—and closed round them like a venus Fly Trap! Captain Mike Ross finds himself leading an interplanetary expedition to an anonymous planet that welcomes them with a homing beam and then seals shut around them. Their ship is sealed against them and they are hurled into a wholly inhospitable desert. Assailed by strange perils and even stranger temptations, the little group stumbled towards its destiny—Mike Ross, the pilot, Sara Foster, the big game hunter, blind George Smith, and the odious Friar Tuck. Before them was a legend made flesh, around them were creatures of myth and mystery, close behind them stalked Nemesis. The doll, the little wooden painted doll, was to be their salvation. Or their damnation, for each might choose, and find, his own Nirvana.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
HorrorChilling

Details

First published
June 1971
Pages
208
Reading time
About 4 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
DAW
Language
English
ISBN
9780879977726
Series
Standalone

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