num_pages: 445
description: When forty thousand human colonists are abandoned on a planet called Gehenna for political reasons, and re-supply ships fail to arrive, collapse seems imminent. Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence, the lizardlike burrowing calibans.
language: English
title: Forty Thousand in Gehenna
titlecomplete: Forty Thousand in Gehenna (Unionside, #1)
genres: Aliens, Own, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Collections, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 2097
series: Alliance-Union Universe
publisher: DAW