The Survivors (novel)

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name = The Survivors
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Tom Godwin
illustrator =
cover_artist = Wallace Wood
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Gnome Press
release_date = 1958
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 190 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1147635
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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".

Plot introduction

Prisoners in an interstellar war are marooned on the inhospitable planet Ragnarok, where they struggle to survive.

References

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