Synopsis
Burl and the tribe find their peace in the new valley ended by the arrival of a hunting spider and it’s offspring. They decide to leave the valley and climb up the mountain.
History
First publication: Science-Fiction Plus, June 1953
Review
This story was written to complete and to update the two earlier stories and so it has an elaborate explanation of the whole series being on a distant planet and the humans the descendents of a crashed spaceship. The earth life was seeded on the planet at an earlier time. This change was pretty well done and made a certain sense, but still seems contrived. The story itself is again a repeat of the formula. Burl leads the tribe through adventures to safety. More details are revealed about the world and it is interesting world building. But the three stories taken as a series seem disjointed. Only the first story stands as an excellent adventure.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
All of the stories in the Burl series:
The Forgotten Planet
1 The Mad Planet
2 The Red Dust
3 Nightmare Planet
