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* Banshee, in John Steakley's ''Armor''. The cold, windy, acidic atmosphere of the planet itself is instant death, even before the Hive Mind alien insects come into play. The main character's survival strategy is to become an utterly nihilistic schizophreniac.
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Four Day Planet'' has Fenris, generally considered the second worst place to live in the Milky Way. It has ludicrous temperature extremes, and a vast array of downright unpleasant wildlife (that is also lethally poisonous to eat, although if you were [[Too Dumb to Live|dumb enough to eat a tread-snail]], you had it coming). The economy is based around ''whaling'' a gargantuan sea monster that has to be hunted using military-grade ammunition, and while the beastie is being cut up, the people doing the cutting have to have support fire from ''machine-gunners'' to make sure everything else in the ocean doesn't get itself a meal. (The ''worst'' place to live is Flourine-Tainted Niflheim, The Planetary Hell, which has an atmosphere made of inordinately reactive fluorine; it's not an example, since the only thing actively trying to kill you is the air...okay, that is pretty unpleasant).
** The narrator in Piper's ''Lone Star Planet'' mentions offhand that on his home world, children aren't permitted to leave the house unattended until they're proven to be good with firearms. This comes in handy in his assignment to the title world, [[Everything Is Big in Texas|New Texas]].
* Ket in ''[[Animorphs]]: The Ellimist Chronicles''. The surface is covered in lava and poisonous gases. The Ketran death penalty is applied by sending someone to the surface. An alien scouting party that lands on Ket wanders around for hours on the surface in environment suits, before one of their scouts accidentally crashes into a [[Floating Continent]] miles above the ground.
* ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'':
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