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Book Review of Survival

Survival
Survival
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
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"Are we that important to the race?" she asked.
"I think you are," replied the general, seriously. "What happened to Earth - and you - has become a test. Will man end by killing himself off, or by surviving his tendency to kill himself off? That's what the race wants to know - and why the peoples on twenty different worlds pitched in immediately to raise the tremendous amount of money needed to find and furnish this world for those of you that were spared. The race has been challenged. The question has been raised. Can the will to survive be killed in a people? None of us dares to face the possibility of an answer of YES to that question."