The Survival Game

1976

Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection, University of Otago Library Special Collections. With kind permission from Penguin Random House, New York

New York: Ballantine Books

British author Colin Kapp (1929-2007) had a ‘day job’ in an electronic components factory and later as an electroplating consultant. His novel, The Survival Game, describes Colonel Bogaert’s attempt to ‘stay alive on the wildly primitive planet Avida’. On the cover, painted by Henry Richard van Dongen, Bogaert and his colleague fight off the ever advancing ‘crab-rats’ that inundate the planet.