This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the novel SPACE PRISON and four short stories by 1950s and 60s pulp science fiction writer Tom Godwin (1915-1980). In SPACE PRISON (also published as THE SURVIVORS), a colony ship en route to planet Athena 500 light years away is attacked by the Gerns, an alien race with a deep hatred of humans. The colonists are enslaved and some are taken to work on Athena while others are taken to the prison planet Ragnarok. Ragnarok, however, turns out to be an inhospitable world, populated by deadly, aggressive creatures. The novels follows the stranded humans through several generations as they try to survive there. Contents Space Prison And Devious the Line of Duty Cry From a Far Planet The Helpful Hand of God The Nothing Equation This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.