1959 novel by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett
The Dawning Light
Dust-jacket of the first edition
Author
Robert Randall (pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett)
Cover artist
W.I. van der Poel
Language
English
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Gnome Press
Publication date
1959
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
191
Preceded by
The Shrouded Planet
The Dawning Light is a 1959 science fiction novel published under the name Robert Randall, collaborative pseudonym of American writers Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett. It depicts the changes, after the events of The Shrouded Planet by the same authors, in the society of the fictional planet Nidor, a world perpetually covered in dense cloud, inhabited by humanoids resembling humans but differing in several respects, notably in being covered from head to foot in short downy fur. The technological level of the society is about that of Renaissance Europe, and has been that way for thousands of years.
In the novel the main characters are struggling to throw off the influence of the Earthmen. These are humans with advanced technology, who came to their planet as benefactors, founding a university and presiding over advances in agriculture, but whose work always seemed to have adverse results. Some of this was depicted in a previous set of shorter stories, collected as The Shrouded Planet two years previously.
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