One in Three Hundred by McIntosh, J.T.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: One in three hundred (Doubleday science fiction) (Hardcover)
I picked this book up at a used bookstore, and boy howdy am I glad I did! It's a really wonderful old sci-fi book that doesn't seem dated at all, except perhaps by the overly optimistic and "good" main character, Bill Easson. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and feel lucky that I could. If you can get your hands on a book, do so! And hopefully Doubleday or another publishing house will re-issue this.The basic plot: Life on earth is going to come to an end, and the powers that be can only save one in 300 people. Bill Easson is a spaceship pilot, so he gets to pick 10 people to go with him to Mars...one in 300. In his case, he picks 10 people from a small town of 3,000 - leaving the rest to die as Earth does. Does he pick correctly? Really gripping...I only wish there was more!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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social commentary in a great yarn,
By wiley586 (St. Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One in three hundred (Doubleday science fiction) (Hardcover)
The other reviewer has the basic plot right. You, personally, have a few weeks to pick 10 people who will get a chance at survival from a smallish town you've never even heard of. How do you go about it? Do you want saints, scientists, pop stars? What happens when they find out who you are? Then you, personally, have to fly them to Mars in an untested spaceship, along with thousands of similarly untrained pilots. Then you, personally, have to watch your choices play out in the new world as the people you brought find themselves in a survival situation on a new frontier, working out how to bootstrap a new society. What is your responsibility if you unknowingly brought along a compulsive killer? A mafia boss? A lazy slob who won't pull his weight when everyone's survival hangs by a thread? Man this would make a great tv series, with "Lost" or "Highlander" style flasbacks showing who a person was back on earth.
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