The Tenth Planet (U.K.)

Issued concurrently with the Putnam American edition. The "Dag Hammarskjold" takes off from Australia for the new human settlement on Mars. Planet Earth is being eaten away by uncontrollable pollution, starvation and disease. This is the last spaceship, its passengers the last people on earth with any hope. Cooper was an atheist and an individualist. His science fiction often depicts unconventional heroes facing unfamiliar and remote environments.