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The Seed of Earth

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First edition, cover art by Ed Valigursky.

The Seed of Earth is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, originally published as an Ace 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 a colony 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.