As he recovers from the games, Brandd meets Ihjel, a previous winner of the Twenties, who asks him to join a mission on the desert planet of Dis.
The novel starts with Brandd winning the Twenties.
To avoid social problems during the winter period, Anvhar has initiated a planet-wide series of mental and physical games called the Twenties. Planet of the Damned follows Brion Brandd, a character who lives on the planet Anvhar, which, due to an elliptical orbit, experiences a year with a long cold winter and a short hot summer, to which the population have become adapted. It was serialised in 1961 under the title Sense of Obligation and published under that name in 1967. Planet of the Damned is a 1962 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison.
Cover of the first edition, published by Bantam Books.
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