One In Three Hundred
McIntosh
£8.00
One In Three Hundred
By J. T. McIntosh
Published by The Science Fiction Book Club, London, 1956 by arrangement with Museum Press Limited. Hardback with dust jacket. Blue boards with gold ground under titles to the spine. Dark blue dust jacket. Approx size: 19cm H x 13cm W. 192pp. Title No.23 in the SFBC series which ran from 1953 until 1982.
Book Condition: Used. Very Good. All pages present, No tears; No inscriptions; Clean and tight; Light dust staining to the top edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Spine a little age tanned and torn at the top with loss over the title; A few closed tears to the extremities and a small mark on the front cover.
With knowledge of an impending climate disaster facing the earth, the race is on to evacuate to a nearby planet. However, with not enough spaceships available it is down to those in charge of the tickets to choose who gets to go and who has to stay behind and face almost certain death. The title refers to the statistic that only one person in three hundred gets to leave the United States.
Overall Condition: Very Good
Science Fiction/Sci-Fi