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So this is a book I read 25+ years ago.

Its set on a world which eventually gets wiped out and a handful of inhabitants escape in a shuttle/spaceship/rocket to find a new home.

They stop on a moon/asteroid and the book ends there. The way it ends makes me certain there is a continuation

Cant remember what causes the catastrophe. One of the main character survives getting assassinated as it has two hearts or something like that. The killers didn't realise about this anatomic feature and presumed they had killed him for good.

Sorry, I know its not much to go and its so vague.

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    It 's tantalizingly familiar -- the two hearts bit rings a bell -- but I can't put a finger on anything specific. Any more details you can dredge up would be helpful. (For example, was the book newish when you read it or might it have been old even 25 years ago?) Commented yesterday
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    So back then my only source of books from abroad used to be the annual book fair in my town and it used to be predominantly russian authors if you wanted english books. Purchased it early 90s - couldve have been published even way before that before it got to me. Commented 15 hours ago
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    That's likely to be very helpful. Can you add the information in your comment to the question? (That's the preferred place for it.) Commented 7 hours ago

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World destroyed by catastrophe, rockets with survivors, a guy with two hearts surviving an attack piercing one of the hearts reminds me of a 1974 book "The Destruction of Faena" or "Faety" by Russian (soviet) author Alexander Kazantsev.

Can be read on Lib.Ru: Library of Maxim Moshkov or on an Archive.org mirror.

How the guy survived is described is in Part Two (Explosion), Chapter Four (At the Peak of Civilisation).

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    Thank you very much!!! This is the one! Commented 15 hours ago

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