Exit From Asteroid 60

On the airless satellite Echo, human beings are nothing more than interchangeable parts in a Martian mining operation. Born on Earth, dragged across the void to labor in alien tunnels, they dig for ore that will make their captors rich. This is slavery stripped of all pretense, reduced to its purest form: the strong exploit the weak because they can. But Earthmen have not forgotten what it means to be free. When resistance sparks among the tunnels of Echo, the colonists face an impossible choice accept their chains or risk everything in a rebellion that could mean death for every man, woman, and child on this airless rock. The Martians possess superior technology, absolute control, and no mercy for those who dare to dream of liberty. Written in the 1940s when the specters of fascism and totalitarianism haunted the globe, D. L. James crafted more than an adventure story. He wrote a parable about dignity, about the unquenchable human need to determine one's own fate. For readers who love early science fiction at its most raw and unvarnished, this is a reminder that the genre has always been about much more than rockets and ray guns.