>There was a book I read as a juvenile (far longer ago than I like to think)
>that was set in a world that was inimical in the extreme to human life. The
>colonists walked around in armor and had neat high-tech personal weapons that
>sprang (is that a word?) out of their wrists and into their hands when they
>pointed their fingers. As I recall, the plant life was as nasty and feral as
>the fauna.
>Sorry I can't remember the name of the book, but maybe someone else on the
>list can help.
That's _Deathworld_ by Harry Harrison. It had two sequels (Deathworld 2 and
Deathworld 3), but the original was the best.
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