The Judas Valley is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett and Robert Silverberg (under the pen-name “Gerald Vance”) first published in 1962.
Fifty-nine men and one love interest land on a world that killed most of the first scout ship that landed.
Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead?
How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment?
It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve.
If they could live long enough!
Originally published in Amazing Stories October 1956.
Randall Garrett (1927–1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about Earth bringing civilization to an alien planet.
Robert Silverberg (born 1935) is a prolific American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF.
