After Doomsday

Poul Anderson can spin a great yarn no matter what. Here he seems to have fun with the silly Adam and Eve story, and turns out a solid, exciting story. Earth is destroyed. By chance a space ship with an all male crew and a spaceship with an all female crew are out exploring and escape the destruction. Their problem is that they don't know the other ship survived. They have to look for survivors and find out how to defeat the enemy. Obviously, if each ship doesn't find the other, the human race will die. Or if they find each other they still have to create a safe place in a hostile universe. With all these problems as background, the result is a good old-fashioned adventure story. And it's extremely refreshing that the women have adventures as well as the men.

The earth has been distoreyed and two survining ships, one with a male crew, one with a female crew, must search for the gilty party.