← Back to search
Cover of Pandora's Planet

Pandora's Planet

Christopher Anvil (1972)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages ()
SeriesPandora's Planet #
Setting
Goodreads3.69

Content levels

ViolenceNot rated
Sexual contentNot rated
LanguageNot rated

Trigger warnings

Not yet tagged

Positive tags

Not yet tagged

Tropes

Not yet tagged

Themes

Not yet tagged

Synopsis

"If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," is an old rule of politics and warfare. So when the various armies of Earth, divided as they were between suspicious nations, were unable to lick the single-minded invading Centrans who ruled a complacent galactic empire — they surrendered and decided to give their leonine conquerors everything humans could wholeheartedly grant. So they exported installment payments, loan sharks, communism, fascism, planned obsolescence, food fads, religious cults, and all the other delights we are so accustomed to on our home world. Out there among the orderly stars all these goodies were received with gaping jaws and open arms — until the Terrestrial tail was very soon wagging the Centran lion — and the military might of the conquerors faced the unprecedented problem of how to turn their glorious victory into a secure defeat if only their victims would let them!.