GNOME PRESS THE SHROUDED PLANET by Robert Randall (Hardcover)

CONDITION GOOD, INTERNAL PAGES SHOWING SIGNS OF AGEING.
AUTHOR: ROBERT RANDALL (PSEUDONYM FOR ROBERT SILVERBERG, ROBERT & RANDALL GARRETT)

CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER GNOME PRESS 1ST EDITION 1957,

GNOME PRESS

AN AMERICAN SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY KNOWN FOR PUBLISHING MANY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS. GNOME WAS ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT OF THE FAN PUBLISHERS OF SCIENCE FICTION PRODUCING 86 TITLES IN ITS LIFESPAN. GNOME HELPED TO TRANSITION SCIENCE FICTION FROM MAGAZINE PHENOMENON TO MASK MARKET PUBLISHING BUT PROVED TO BE TO UNDERFUNDED TO MAKE THE LEAP FROM FAN BASED PUBLISHING TO THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL. AFTER 10 YEARS IT FADED DUE TO ITS INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH MAJOR PUBLISHERS.

SYNOPSIS

ALL STORIES RELATE TO THE FICTIONAL PLANET "NIDOR" & THE EFFECTS ON ITS HUMANOID INHABITANTS OF THE COMING OF EARTH MEN. HUMANS WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY & APPARENT BENEVOLENT MOTIVES.