A Gift from Earth
Edition: Orbit Book
Publisher: Futura Publications Limited
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Camberwell, London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
Genres: Science Fiction
First sentence: A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat.
Description: [from back cover]

A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet.  Forty miles below, the atmosphere is sixty times as thick as Earth's, and hot enough to melt lead.

The organ banks are the centre of this world.  To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs.  And from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them all alive...
Table of contents: title: The Ramrobot
pagenum: 7; title: The Sons of Earth
pagenum: 22; title: The Car
pagenum: 45; title: The Question Man
pagenum: 67; title: The Hospital
pagenum: 83; title: The Vivarium
pagenum: 97; title: The Bleeding Heart
pagenum: 116; title: Polly's Eyes
pagenum: 134; title: The Way Back
pagenum: 153; title: Parlette's Hand
pagenum: 170; title: Interview with the Head
pagenum: 187; title: The Slowboat
pagenum: 201; title: It All Happened At Once
pagenum: 221; title: Balance of Power
pagenum: 238