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From the Back Cover     The ties of home were strong. In a few years man gets attached to bricks and mortar, and scenery. In a hundred years roots are so deep that no one wants to tear them up. In a thousand years it is quite unthinkable. In a million years, only a lunatic would want to leave . . .     Then came the alien, presenting an impossible choice . . . Humanity must leave the earth - or die! Behind them was everything they had known. In front of them, an unknown to-morrow.     Which were the greater - the hazards of remaining, or the danger of the infinite void ahead?     Could they trust the alien?     He said there was another world, a safe world, that would be a new home - but was it all a trap?     There were dangers out there. The dangers of a population confined in ships for half a life-time; the dangers of cosmic radiation; danger of attacks by the ’Others’!     Only men of the highest courage and the greatest integrity could hope to survive in the raw, searing savagery of the unknown . . .

(British, Badger Books SF-40, 1960)
  (USA, Arcadia House, 1965)
(USA, Ace D-391, 1959)
 
(German, Utopia Zukunft 339, 1962)

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