The Forgotten Planet

A planet is forgotten because one six-by-eight-inch card slips from a file. For centuries, life grows there without anyone noticing.

Murray Leinster’s 1954 science-fiction novel begins with a sterile world carefully seeded for future human settlers—then abandoned by mistake. Millennia pass, and plants and insects flourish unchecked. When human descendants arrive after a spaceship crash, they find a wilderness where ants can hunt like wolves and the smallest rustle may signal a predator. With no safe refuge and no help coming, they must learn how to survive in a world that has made them prey. What chance do people have against a planet’s worth of hungry life?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.