Space Prison and Other Works
Pages: 256
|Published: 10 Mar 2010
Description
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the novel SPACE PRISON and four short stories by 1950s and 60s pulp science fiction writer Tom Godwin (1915-1980).
In SPACE PRISON (also published as THE SURVIVORS), a colony ship en route to planet Athena 500 light years away is attacked by the Gerns, an alien race with a deep hatred of humans. The colonists are enslaved and some are taken to work on Athena while others are taken to the prison planet Ragnarok.
Ragnarok, however, turns out to be an inhospitable world, populated by deadly, aggressive creatures. The novels follows the stranded humans through several generations as they try to survive there.
Contents
Space Prison
And Devious the Line of Duty
Cry From a Far Planet
The Helpful Hand of God
The Nothing Equation
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
In SPACE PRISON (also published as THE SURVIVORS), a colony ship en route to planet Athena 500 light years away is attacked by the Gerns, an alien race with a deep hatred of humans. The colonists are enslaved and some are taken to work on Athena while others are taken to the prison planet Ragnarok.
Ragnarok, however, turns out to be an inhospitable world, populated by deadly, aggressive creatures. The novels follows the stranded humans through several generations as they try to survive there.
Contents
Space Prison
And Devious the Line of Duty
Cry From a Far Planet
The Helpful Hand of God
The Nothing Equation
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
