SOLVED. Adult Sci-Fi: Humanity expands into space, crash land on planet, evolve, generations later the protagonist is stuck on the planet with limited technology. Humanity arrives and the survivors change everything. [s]

[Michael]

Sci-Fi: Read this book around 2005 ish (give or take a few years). I was broke so was looking for free books online through various websites. The book was not a new book at the time that I read it, so it could date back several decades (some of those writers are amazing though we don't expose ourselves to them often enough).

Humanity expands into space. Can't communicate with aliens and time after time we fight different aliens. After much bloody and difficult expansion into the stars, a crew crash lands on a planet and have to survive on a very hostile planet.

Several generations of adapting to the new environment such as high gravity and dangerous landscape/animals/plants etc.

Humanity stumbles across them a few hundred years later and the protagonist is a highly evolved human and subdues the earth visitors. He trains a dog like animal which can communicate telepathically which solves humanities expansion/communication problems. They take the new ship and head out into the stars.

Please, somebody has had to have read this book and I would love the opportunity to get into its pages again.

[beichst]

I believe this is The Survivors by Godwin, Thomas.

"Crushing gravity, thin air, freezing winter, searing summer under two suns. A deadly wasteland teems with monsters and fatal fever. A thousand untrained Earth men, women and children are brutally marooned on the planet Ragnarok by a sadistic enemy. That night, 200 die. In the morning, survivors decide what they will live for - revenge. The Survivors aka Space Prison. Included in Cold Equations"

This is the first of two stories in the series Ragnarok. The second is the novel The Space Barbarians

[Michael]

It sounds like The Survivors to me, as well. I’d add that it was also published under the alternative title “Space Prison.” There is apparently a sequel as well, but I’ve not read that.

[Michael]

I think this is it! Thank you so very much!

[Kris]

Here's a Google Books preview of Michael's suggestion The Survivors (also:"Space Prison") by Tom Godwin:

https://books.google.com/books?id=QpD... There are different cover images.

Can we mark your request as Solved?

[Kris]

Shelving this as Solved. If this isn't correct, just post an update.