Tom Godwin was a 20th century science fiction writer. His childhood was full of family tragedies. Godwin's novel Space Prison was first published under the name The Survivors. The climate was freezing cold in the winter and the two suns made it broiling hot in the summer. Monsters roamed the landscape and fever was prevalent. A brutal enemy marooned men, women and children from Earth on Ragnarok the most feared inhabitable planet known to man. Several hundred died from exposure that first night and in the morning the rest of the humans knew that they lived only for revenge.