Joe Haldeman's short story "Tricentennial".
Poul Anderson:  "Planet of No Return"
Stephen Baxter:  "Titan"
Ray Bradbury:  "The Martian Chronicles" (esp. final story ? The Million Year
Picnic).
Arthur C Clarke:  "Songs of Distant Earth" (novel version)
Steven C Gould:   "Helm"
Robert A Heinlein: "Farmer in the Sky"  has suggestions of escaping from a
decadent (though not yet doomed) Earth.
Olaf Stapedon: "Last and First Men"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: anat shapira [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 10:22 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      looking for books with a particular plot
>
> Looking for Sci-fi books/short stories describing a group of people
> escaping (on their own initiative) from a doomed or deteriorating earth to
> outer space, leaving the rest of the population behind.
> All and any suggestions will be appreciated.
> Anat Shapira
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html