The Green Odyssey

About the book

"The Green Odyssey" by Philip José Farmer is a science fiction novel published in 1957. Astronaut Alan Green is stranded on a primitive planet, trapped as a duchess's gigolo and married to a slave woman. When he learns of two other stranded astronauts, he launches a daring escape across vast plains aboard a wheeled ship. Pursued by his wife and children, Green faces cannibals, pirates, and mysterious floating islands in his quest for freedom and rescue.