The English translation of the summary roughly states: I borrowed the book from the library and have re-typed the book and converted it into an ebook (epub format). The first book in the series is called 'Uppbrott från Jorden' (Upheaval from Earth) and was released in 1979 and is part 1 of 5 in George Johanssons science fiction series 'Universums Öde' ('The Fate of the Universe'). Name of the book is unknown, author is unknown.Īfter having looked through a number of books in my local library's online database, I believe that the book is by the Swedish author George Johansson. I seem to recall that there was a numbered explanation to different parts of the ship diagram, but not sure. The ship looked almost like the front cockpit area of the space shuttle, tacked on to a very wide and flat, rectangular cargo ship. The book also had a diagram of his ship inside the covers. The book was a paperback, pocket-sized, and had cover-art depicting the captain sitting in the cockpit of his ship, seen from the outside.

He actually finds a woman and his ship is sent off to Andromeda, by the same entity that gave him the message in the first place. On one of these hauls, he receives a mysterious transmission/message, that instructs him to find a woman and at a given time the two of them and their ship will be sent to Andromeda to start human civilization again, away from their current decay. There are several planets with mining facilities and colonies, and our intrepid captain tenders to these, in a private business, carrying plutonium and similar stuff. The setting is one of a slightly decaying society, with the usual problems, trash, pollution etc. The story is about a lone spaceship captain flying interplanetary cargo hauls in our solarsystem. Primary audience as I recall is the more mature sci-fi crowd. I read this many years ago, possibly 30 years or so.

Universums öde by George Johansson