Author: J. T. McIntosh
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It would have been difficult to find a more unremarkable man than Lieutenant Bill Easson; straightfoward, conscientious...a nice guy. But in Simsville he was God.
Earth was doomed. And just ten people out of every 3000 were to be chosen to start a new colony on Mars. Each lieutenant hand-picked the ten he was piloting through space in that last struggle to survive. Each not only had the power of life and death; his choice also determined the kind of colony that might survive. As the time grew nearer, violent mobs released the unbearable tension through mayhem and murder, and the ten names on Bill's list changed again and again.
Bill Easson knew he had to face three problems: Stay alive when fanatics might destroy him--their one chance for life. Get his people out of Simsville when2990 men, women, and children would be ready to kill them in a last drive for self-preservation. And, the most difficult, pilot those people to Mars in an untested, hastily built ship when he himself was inexperienced. The authorities had given him about a 60 per cent chance.
(This blurb taken from the Doubleday edition.)
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First published in 1954
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