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BADGE OF INFAMY - By LESTER DEL REY
BADGE OF INFAMY
I. Pariah
II. Lobby
III. Spaceman
IV. Martian
V. Surgery
VI. Research
VII. Plague
A battered spacecraft crashes into a bleak, snow‑driven wasteland, leaving pilot Chris and the unnamed survivor scrambling for oxygen and a functioning suit. In the moments after the impact they clamber from the twisted hull, barely escaping a lethal leak. Their desperate fight for breath sets a stark tone, hinting at a world where even the most advanced technology can become a death trap.
The survivor, Dr. Daniel Feldman, now lives hidden in a city’s cheapest flophouse, a former physician reduced to a pariah among the destitute. When a fellow drifter collapses from “space‑stomach,” Feldman’s medical instincts surface despite his ragged appearance and the contempt of the shelter’s caretaker. His attempts to help expose a gritty underbelly of space‑age society—where the fallout of interstellar travel reaches the streets, and redemption may still be found in the most unlikely of places.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (187K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Susan Skinner, Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2006-10-05
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1915–1993
A major figure in American science fiction, this writer helped shape the genre both on the page and behind the scenes as an editor. He is especially remembered for early classic stories, popular books for younger readers, and his role in building the Del Rey Books imprint.
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