# West of the Sun

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- Authors: [Edgar Pangborn](https://www.bookquiver.com/edgar-pangborn)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-09-29

## Description

Several light-years west of the Earth's Sun lay the planet, Lucifer, circling a sun of its own, circled by its own two moons. The five specially selected and trained passengers of the " Argo" found much on Lucifer to remind them of the Earth they had left eleven years before. The air was invigorating, the vegetation lush, and there were people - a race of friendly white giants and a swarming population of wary pygmy tribes. The Earth pioneers soon faced the problem of survival on the red-green planet, and also the founding of a democratic civilization among the strife-torn pygmies. However, they were soon entwined in a brutal war between opposing pygmy forces. On the outcome of this war hinged the very fate of the new way of life on Lucifer...

## Editions

### West of the Sun

- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-697-9
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB