The Seed of Earth is ascience fiction novel by American writerRobert Silverberg, originally published inGalaxy Science Fiction in June 1962, and expanded as anAce Double in 1962. The novel takes place in the near future, and tells the story of a group of individuals, selected randomly by a government-sponsored lottery, who are forced to leave Earth and establish acolony on a distant world. Once there, four of the colonists are abducted by the planet's native inhabitants, and must put aside their differences and work together in order to survive.
Silverberg originally published it as the short story "The Winds of Siros" in the September, 1957 issue ofVenture Science Fiction. He first enlarged it into thenovellaThe Seed of Earth forGalaxy magazine in 1962, before publishing it as a further enlarged standalone novel in 1962.
It is unrelated to another of Silverberg's stories which has also been published under the titleThe Seed of Earth in the April, 1958 issue ofSuper-Science Fiction, before it was re-published under the titleJourney's End in the Silverberg collectionsDimension Thirteen (1969) andWorld of a Thousand Colors (1982).
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