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The Seed of Earth

by Robert Silverberg

Cover artist: Edward Valigursky

Publisher: Ace

Pub year: 1962

Cover price: 40¢

 

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Cover tagline

If your number is up, you go to the stars

Back cover text

Part of Ace Double: Next Stop The Stars

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Interior text

The unwilling colonists and the inhospitable aliens

In a dark cave, on a cold planet, in a distant galaxy, four Earthmen sat and pondered the chance that had sent them there. The Computer had picked them to carry human civilization out beyond the limits of the Solar System. They were to be pioneers of a virgin world.

Do Your Share for Mankind's Destiny read the slogan back on Earth. But Mankind's Destiny had not prepared them for the onslaught of the vicious aliens.

Four humans, alone in a cave, waiting for the outburst that would hurl them at each others' throats, feeling the alien eyes observing their every action, and knowing that whatever they did would determine the future of their entire colony.