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Space Prison - Tom Godwin

Space Prison

By Tom Godwin

  • Release Date: 2016-07-26
  • Genre: Action & Adventure
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Description

A ship heading from Earth to Athena, a planet 500 light years away, is suddenly attacked by the Gerns, an alien empire in its expansion phase. People aboard are divided by the invaders into Acceptables and Rejects. The Acceptables would become slave labor for the Gerns on Athena, and the Rejects are forced ashore on the nearest 'Earth-like' planet, called Ragnarok. The Gerns say they will return for the Rejects, but the Rejects quickly realise that that isn't going to happen.
Ragnarok is not so 'Earth-like.' Its gravity is 1.5 times that of Earth, it is populated by deadly, aggressive creatures and it contains little in the way of usable metal ores. This, combined with a terrible deadly fever that kills in hours, more than decimates the population.
The novels follows the stranded humans through several generations as they try to survive there, and their unswerving goal to repay the Gerns for their cruelty.

Reviews

  • A Nostalgic Read

    3
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    I first read this book as a 10-year-old, some 60 years ago, reading from an old paperback grabbed from one of my parents' bookshelves. it's classic pulp space opera, complete with blasters and aliens and hyperdrives. Mixed in with that content is material that seems like it comes from a US Army survival manual, with various challenges and solutions presented with just the right pacing. Each obstacle is gradually conquered with a perfect combination of ingenuity and courage, just like a space opera should be. The ending is predictable but satisfying. This book took a lot longer to read when I was 10. One long afternoon should do it for most readers. Thanks to the publisher for making it available at such a reasonable price in e-book format. Enjoy it (or not) for what it is -- a great example of science fiction pulp written at the dawn of our own space age.

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