- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Museum P; Reprint edition (1956)
- ASIN: B0000CJC6S
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,238,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rip-Off Warning: This is only one-third of a book.
1 Feb 2013
By Charlie Howard
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Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is only the first 60 pages of a 223-page book; I still have a copy of the original hardcover, purchased from Doubleday's "SF Book of the Month Club" almost 60 years ago.
The book was serialized in a magazine as novellas and then released as the complete edition, so calling it a "Trilogy" stretches the facts past the breaking-point. This first part ends almost mid-sentence, there is no closure, the story has barely begun to unfold.
As to the quality of the story, which normally would be the purpose of a review, it probably deserves 3 stars; McIntosh was an excellent writer, so even though the storyline is simplistic, it moves along quickly, and he manages to hold your attention for the brief time it takes to read these 20,000+ words.
In fairness, Amazon probably doesn't know the packaging here is deceptive, as they also carry the hardcopy edition, which is complete; and the new publisher's name, "Prologue Books," should give us fair warning that this is only the prologue of the actual book. If you want to read the whole thing from them, it'll cost you nine bucks.
The book was serialized in a magazine as novellas and then released as the complete edition, so calling it a "Trilogy" stretches the facts past the breaking-point. This first part ends almost mid-sentence, there is no closure, the story has barely begun to unfold.
As to the quality of the story, which normally would be the purpose of a review, it probably deserves 3 stars; McIntosh was an excellent writer, so even though the storyline is simplistic, it moves along quickly, and he manages to hold your attention for the brief time it takes to read these 20,000+ words.
In fairness, Amazon probably doesn't know the packaging here is deceptive, as they also carry the hardcopy edition, which is complete; and the new publisher's name, "Prologue Books," should give us fair warning that this is only the prologue of the actual book. If you want to read the whole thing from them, it'll cost you nine bucks.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Awesome!
6 May 2005
By dSavannah George-Jones
- Published on Amazon.com
I picked this book up at a used bookstore, and boy howdy am I glad I did! It's a really wonderful old sci-fi book that doesn't seem dated at all, except perhaps by the overly optimistic and "good" main character, Bill Easson. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and feel lucky that I could. If you can get your hands on a book, do so! And hopefully Doubleday or another publishing house will re-issue this.
The basic plot: Life on earth is going to come to an end, and the powers that be can only save one in 300 people. Bill Easson is a spaceship pilot, so he gets to pick 10 people to go with him to Mars...one in 300. In his case, he picks 10 people from a small town of 3,000 - leaving the rest to die as Earth does. Does he pick correctly? Really gripping...I only wish there was more!
The basic plot: Life on earth is going to come to an end, and the powers that be can only save one in 300 people. Bill Easson is a spaceship pilot, so he gets to pick 10 people to go with him to Mars...one in 300. In his case, he picks 10 people from a small town of 3,000 - leaving the rest to die as Earth does. Does he pick correctly? Really gripping...I only wish there was more!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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social commentary in a great yarn
24 Aug 2006
By wiley586
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The other reviewer has the basic plot right. You, personally, have a few weeks to pick 10 people who will get a chance at survival from a smallish town you've never even heard of. How do you go about it? Do you want saints, scientists, pop stars? What happens when they find out who you are? Then you, personally, have to fly them to Mars in an untested spaceship, along with thousands of similarly untrained pilots. Then you, personally, have to watch your choices play out in the new world as the people you brought find themselves in a survival situation on a new frontier, working out how to bootstrap a new society. What is your responsibility if you unknowingly brought along a compulsive killer? A mafia boss? A lazy slob who won't pull his weight when everyone's survival hangs by a thread? Man this would make a great tv series, with "Lost" or "Highlander" style flasbacks showing who a person was back on earth.
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