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Wasp

Eric Frank Russell

1957154 pagesabout 2–4 hours
1957
first published
  • 1957Avalon Books · 223 pages · ENG
  • 1958Dobson · ENGISBN 9780234776551
  • 1961Science Fiction Book Club · ENG
  • 1971Bantam Books · 154 pages · ENG
  • 1986Methuen · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780413588609
  • 2001V. Gollancz · 175 pages · ENGISBN 9780575070950
  • 2008Pollinger in Print · ENGISBN 9781848395091
  • 1986Del Rey · ENGISBN 9780345327598

You could summarize this story as action/adventure and still do it a disservice. This is about an agent dropped on an enemy planet with one goal: to disrupt, distract, and generally raise hell with the planetary administration in a textbook example of unconventional psychological warfare. Russell had a theory that one man can, with minimal support, completely discombobulate a planet to the point where its military effectiveness would be severely diminished. This book is his theory expressed as a novel.

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