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Title: Space Prison

Author: Tom Godwin

Release Date: September 9, 2007 [EBook #22549]

Language: English

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PYRAMID
BOOKS
F-774
40c

One of the truly _unusual_ novels of science-fiction--a vivid portrayal
of the deadliest planet ever discovered!

SPACE PRISON

(original title: THE SURVIVORS)

Tom Godwin

AFTER TWO CENTURIES....

The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume.
Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully
deadly--the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them.

Humbolt dropped inside the stockade, exulting. For two hundred years his
people had been waiting for the chance to fight the mighty Gern Empire
...

... with bows and arrows against blasters and bombs!

Space Prison

(original title: The Survivors)

a science-fiction adventure by

TOM GODWIN

PYRAMID BOOKS NEW YORK

To

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

SPACE PRISON
(original title: _The Survivors_)

A PYRAMID BOOK
published by arrangement with Gnome 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 intended between any character
herein and any person, living or dead; any such resemblance is purely
coincidental.

Printed in the United States of America

_PYRAMID BOOKS are published by Pyramid Publications, Inc. 444 Madison
Avenue, New York 22, New York, U.S.A._

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PART 1

* * * * *

For seven weeks the _Constellation_ had been plunging through hyperspace
wit