The Seed fo Earth / Next Stop the Stars by Robert Silverberg

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1962. Ace. 1st Printing.

Next Stop the Stars
A return to the world of Majipoor. Centuries after the events in "Valentine Pontifex" an archaelogical expedition sets off to Majipoor to search for the secrets of a vanished race. The quest for knowledge turns into a nightmare battle for survival when they are captured by a mountain tribe.

The Seed of Earth
The computer had chosen them - a small cross-section of humanity to serve Mankind's Destiny. Out of seven billion people on Earth mechanical chance had selected them as involuntary colonists on an unknown planet. In seven days they would be on their way, on a sink-or-swim mission to a lonely world beyond the limits of the Solar System.

It was a summons each had privately dreaded, yet always been prepared for. But no one had prepared them for the vicious attacks of sinister aliens . . .