The Survivors (novel)
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| The Survivors | |
 Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author | Tom Godwin |
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| Cover artist | Wallace Wood |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
| Publication date | 1958 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 190 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| OCLC | 1147635 |
| Followed by | The Space Barbarians |
The Survivors is a science fiction novel by author Tom Godwin. It was published in 1958 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies, of which 1,084 were never bound. The novel was published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1960 under the title Space Prison. The novel is an expansion of Godwin's story "Too Soon to Die" which first appeared in the magazine Venture.
[edit] Plot introduction
Prisoners in an interstellar war are marooned on the inhospitable planet Ragnarok, where they struggle to survive.
[edit] References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 307.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 188. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
