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Lifeboat

by Harry Harrison, Gordon R. Dickson

Adrift in a tiny lifeboat, Giles Steel Ahsad Adelman is trapped with a group of human slaves and two alien crewmen. Survival becomes a desperate struggle when the aliens, who are the only ones capable of piloting the vessel, lose the will to live.

Accession 15558 ISBN 0708881688 Publisher Futura
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