To Joe and Blanche Kolarik, whose friendship and encouragement in the years gone by will never be forgotten....

For seven weeks the Constellation had been plunging through hyperspace with her eight thousand colonists; fleeing like a hunted thing with her communicators silenced and her drives moaning and thunder...

It was early morning as Bill Humbolt sat by the fire in his cave and studied the map Craig had made of the plateau’s mountain. Craig had left the mountain nameless and he dipped his pen in ink to writ...

When spring came Steve Schroeder was leader, as Lake had wanted. It was a duty and a responsibility that would be under circumstances different from those of any of the leaders before him. The grim fi...

John Humbolt, leader, stood on the wide stockade wall and watched the lowering sun touch the western horizon⁠—far south of where it had set when he was a child. Big Summer was over and now, in the yea...