RAWROAK RINGAR ?? Letar efter en bok

Meddelandetär" Ragnarok ringer ". Boken är Tom Godwin s 1958-roman Survivors aka Space Fängelse ; Den finns tillgänglig på Project Gutenberg och Librivox . Kanske en av dessa omslag kommer att ringa en klocka. En kortare version som heter "För snart att dö" publicerades som en roman i Venture Science Fiction Magazine , mars 1957 , som finns på Internetarkiv . Det fanns en uppföljare som heter Space Barbarians . Godwins Ragnarok serie (som det kallas) var föremål för < a href="https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26863/what-is-the-name-of-the-sf-novel-that-takes-place-on-a-planet-called-ragnarok" > den här gamla frågan och den här och den här . Från Wikipedia sammanfattning:

A ship heading from Earth to Athena, a planet 500 light years away, is suddenly attacked by the Gerns, an alien empire in its expansion phase. People aboard are divided by the invaders into Acceptables and Rejects. The Acceptables would become slave labor for the Gerns on Athena, and the Rejects are forced ashore on the nearest 'Earth-like' planet, called Ragnarok. The Gerns say they will return for the Rejects, but the Rejects quickly realise that that isn't going to happen.

Ragnarok is not so 'Earth-like.' Its gravity is 1.5 times that of Earth, it is populated by deadly, aggressive creatures and it contains little in the way of usable metal ores. This, combined with a terrible deadly fever that kills in hours, more than decimates the population.

The novels follows the stranded humans through several generations as they try to survive there, and their unswerving goal to repay the Gerns for their cruelty.

Nu ska du ta upp några punkter i din fråga med utdrag ur historien:

Tala om att läsa pingviner

Sinnläsningsgranskarna, som kallas "mockers", är mer som ekorrar:

They emerged into full view; six little animals the size of squirrels, each of them a different color. They walked on short hind legs like miniature bears and the dark eyes in the bear-chipmunk faces were fixed on him with intense interest.

[. . . .]

"They're telepathic between one another," he said. "The yellow one there repeated what the one you spoke to heard you say and it repeated what the yellow one heard me say. It has to be telepathy between them."

[. . . .]

Their intelligence was surprising and they seemed to be partially receptive to human thoughts, as Bill Humbolt had written. By the end of the fifteenth year their training had reached such a stage of perfection that a mocker would transmit or not transmit with only the unspoken thought of its master to tell it which it should be. In addition, they would transmit the message to whichever mocker their master's thought directed. Presumably all mockers received the message but only the mocker to whom it was addressed would repeat it aloud.

och onda vargar.

"Prowlers!"

The warning cry came from an outer guard and black shadows were suddenly sweeping out of the dark dawn.

They were things that might have been half wolf, half tiger; each of them three hundred pounds of incredible ferocity with eyes blazing like yellow fire in their white-fanged tiger-wolf faces. They came like the wind, in a flowing black wave, and ripped through the outer guard line as though it had not existed. The inner guards fired in a chattering roll of gunshots, trying to turn them, and Prentiss's rifle licked out pale tongues of flame as he added his own fire. The prowlers came on, breaking through, but part of them went down and the others were swerved by the fire so that they struck only the outer edge of the area where the Rejects were grouped.

At that distance they blended into the dark ground so that he could not find them in the sights of his rifle. He could only watch helplessly and see a dark-haired woman caught in their path, trying to run with a child in her arms and already knowing it was too late. A man was running toward her, slow in the high gravity, an axe in his hands and his cursing a raging, savage snarl. For a moment her white face was turned in helpless appeal to him and the others; then the prowlers were upon her and she fell, deliberately, going to the ground with her child hugged in her arms beneath her so that her body would protect it.

The prowlers passed over her, pausing for an instant to slash the life from her, and raced on again. The vanished back into the outer darkness, the farther guards firing futilely, and there was a silence but for the distant, hysterical sobbing of a woman.

It had happened within seconds; the fifth prowler attach that night and the mildest.

De skickar en signal tillbaka till jorden "Raroak Calling" ...

Inte till jorden utan till närmaste fiende utomjordingar, som tros vara på Athena, 200 ljusår från Ragnarok:

It was five years before the transmitter was ready for testing. It was early fall of the year thirty-five then, and the water that gushed from the pipe splashed in cold drops against Humbolt as the waterwheel was set in motion.

The generator began to hum and George observed the output of it and the transmitter as registered by the various meters he had made.

"Weak, but it will reach the Gern monitor station on Athena," he said, "It's ready to send—what do you want to say?"

"Make it something short," he said. "Make it, 'Ragnarok calling.'"

George poised his finger over the transmitting key. "This will set forces in motion that can never be recalled. What we do here this morning is going to cause a lot of Gerns—or Ragnarok people—to die."

"It will be the Gerns who die," he said. "Send the signal."

"Like you, I believe the same thing," George said. "I have to believe it because that's the way I want it to be. I hope you're right. It's something we'll never know."

He began depressing the key.

De besegrar så småningom ett främmande skepp och återvänder till jorden. De besegrar den utomjordiska angreppskraften, eftersom de efter generationer på utländskt planet utvecklade super mänsklig styrka på grund av 3x gravitationen.

Inte bara den högre gravitationen (1,5 g, inte 3 g) men de allmänt hårda förhållandena på Ragnarok har gjort de överlevande fysiskt, mentalt och moraliskt starkare. Det, och deras allianser med de ursprungligen fientliga infödda / vilda djur, gör det möjligt för dem att besegra Gerns.

"No one expected you to survive here." The commander wiped at his swollen lips, wincing, and an almost child-like petulance came into his tone. "You weren't supposed to survive."

"I know," he said again. "We've made it a point to remember that."

"The gravity, the heat and cold and fever, the animals—why didn't they kill you?"

"They tried," he said. "But we fought back. And we had a goal—to meet you Gerns again. You left us on a world that had no resources. Only enemies who would kill us—the gravity, the prowlers, the unicorns. So we made them our resources. We adapted to the gravity that was supposed to kill us and became stronger and quicker than Gerns. We made allies of the prowlers and unicorns who were supposed to be our executioners and used them tonight to help us kill Gerns. So now we have your ship.

Då måste de lämna jorden eftersom de inser att de inte längre är mänskliga.

De kommer faktiskt inte till jorden i Space Prison / The Survivors ; Jag antar att det händer i uppföljaren, som jag inte har läst. Men de förutse problemet:

"One day more," Craig said. "We're two hundred years late but we're coming in to the world that was to have been our home."

"It can never be, now," he said. "Have any of us ever thought of that—that we're different to humans and there's no human world we could ever call home?"

"I've thought of it," Lake said. "Ragnarok made us different physically and different in the way we think.We could live on human worlds—but we would always be a race apart and never really belong there."