Gumshuda Musafir By Dr Saber Ali Hashmi is an Urdu translation of famous Science Fiction novel Marooned, Marooned is a 1964 science fiction thriller novel by Martin Caidin, about a manned spacecraft stranded in earth orbit, oxygen running out, and only an experimental craft available to attempt a rescue. A film based on the novel led Caidin to prepare a revised version of it in 1968. Caidin prepared a revised version of the novel in 1968 that was released in 1969 to coincide with the film.The film was released in 1969, four months after the Apollo 11 mission, with the revised novel hitting book stores a few weeks earlier