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"No human being who has known triumph is ever quite the same again, and anybody who has once been admired by his fellows is practically ruined for life -- at least so far as being independent of admiration is concerned." -- Murray Leinster, "The Forgotten Planet" (in Planets of Adventure, 2003, Baen Books, ISBN: 0-7434-7162-8; first published by Gnome Press in 1954).

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Bibliographic note from the preface to Planets of Adventure:

The Forgotten Planet was Leinster's rewrite and novelization of three novellas published previously: "The Mad Planet" (Argosy, June 1920), "The Red Dust" (Argosy, April 1921), and "Nightmare Planet" (Science Fiction Plus, June 1953). In the original first two stories, the adventure was set on a far future Earth. The rewritten novel version was first published by Gnome Press in 1954.