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PYRAMID
BOOKS
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One of the truly unusual novels ofscience-fiction—a vivid portrayal ofthe deadliest planet ever discovered!

(original title: THE SURVIVORS)

Tom Godwin

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AFTER TWO CENTURIES....

The sound came swiftly nearer,rising in pitch and swelling involume. Then it broke throughthe clouds, tall and black andbeautifully deadly—the Gern battlecruiser, come to seek them out anddestroy them.

Humbolt dropped inside the stockade,exulting. For two hundred years hispeople had been waiting for the chanceto fight the mighty Gern Empire ...

... with bows and arrows againstblasters and bombs!

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Space Prison

(original title: The Survivors)

a science-fiction adventure by

TOM GODWIN

pyramid booksnew york

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To

JOE AND BLANCHE KOLARIK,
whose friendship and encouragement inthe years gone by will never be forgotten.

SPACE PRISON
(original title: The Survivors)

A Pyramid Book
published by arrangement withGnome Press, Inc.

printing history
Gnome Press edition published 1958
Pyramid edition published February 1960
Second printing: September 1962

This book is fiction. No resemblance is intendedbetween any character herein and any person, livingor dead; any such resemblance is purely coincidental.

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