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Title	:	The Survivors (Ragnarok #1)
Author	:	Tom Godwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 136 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2007 by Wildside Press (first published January 1st 1958)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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Crushing gravity, thin air, freezing winter, searing summer under two suns. A deadly wasteland teems with monsters and fatal fever. A thousand untrained Earth men, women and children are brutally marooned on the planet Ragnarok by a sadistic enemy. That night, 200 die. In the morning, survivors decide what they will live for - revenge. The Survivors aka Space Prison. Included in Cold Equations.

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Original Title:	The Survivors
ISBN:	1434401553 (ISBN13: 9781434401557)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ragnarok #1

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Tom Godwin's place in SF history is secured by his classic short story, The Cold Equations, in which human concerns batter uselessly against an indifferent universe; so I was intrigued to find out what he could achieve at greater length. Alas, not much.A human colonising spaceship is captured by the evil Gerns, who dump the unwanted half of the colonists on a hostile planet called Ragnarok, expecting them to die. Indeed, most of them do, falling prey to the local fauna, climate and diseases, as

I had been working my way through some of the old SF collected on Project Gutenberg for some months when I stumbled on Tom Godwins Space Prison (aka The Survivors, part of a two-story series called Ragnarok, for the planet the original was set on).Godwin, for those unfamiliar, was a late 50's/early 60's writer whose work here bears a loose similarity to classic SF from author like Pat Frank (Alas, Babylon) to Edward Balmer and Philip Wylie (When Worlds Collide / After Worlds Collide), to name a

Godwin will always be remembered for his classic "The Cold Equations," one of the darkest stories ever published in the field. In fact, I was unable to think of anything else he'd written when I stumbled across this slim volume. It's the story of a planetary colonization ship that's taken over by evil aliens; some of the "useful" people are kept as prisoners, but the majority of the passengers are rejected and left on a very harsh and inhospitable world. The viewpoint characters change every few

For it's time The book with all of its campy pulp science fiction it end beautifully and poetically"When a race has been condemned to die by another race and it fights and struggles and manages somehow to survive, it learns a lesson. It learns it must never again let the other race be in position to destroy it.I loved it!

the book covers such a vast story (an alternate earth history, an alien race, a war, three planets, and 200 years) that a reader has a difficult time getting to know any of the characters except for some very violent unicorns

Tom Godwin's "Space Prison" (originally named "The Survivors") was an enjoyable read, but far from a masterpiece. As said before by many others, it is almost impossible to come to like any of the characters. They show up for a chapter or two, then quickly die off, replaced by their descendants. I understand that Godwin couldn't focus too much on characters, as he is writing over a span of two hundred years, but a character who gets more than a few paragraphs would have been nice. The idea of a

Tremendous story about Earthlings exiled on hostile planet by evil Gerns. They must battle extreme heat and cold, diseases, and native animals - unicorns that cannot be tamed, intelligent werewolves - but they live for the day they can exact revenge on the Gerns. Out of the original 4000 Earthlings, less than 100 survive but they are the fittest and strongest and evolve over the next 200 years into a race of supermen. They lure the Gerns back and defeat them. This is sort of like a sequel to the