Book description
The computer had chosen them - a small cross-section of humanity to
serve Mankind's Destiny. Out of seven billion people on Earth mechanical
chance had selected them as involuntary colonists on an unknown planet.
In seven days they would be on their way, on a sink-or-swim mission to a
lonely world beyond the limits of the Solar System. It was a summons
each had privately dreaded, yet always been prepared for. But no one had
prepared them for the vicious attacks of sinister aliens . . . Robert
Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1935, and is one of the most prolific authors of all time, writing
not just SF & Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large number
of pseudonymously published erotica novels. In his first years as a
professional writer, his output regularly exceeded a million words per
year. He has won and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards
dozens of times as both writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA
Grand Master Award. Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are
A Time of Changes, The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's
Castle. Robert Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States
with his wife, author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
