A lush, green planet beckons from Main Mission Control's star-scanning screen... and to the homeless Alphans, it look like Earth. But descent reveals a wasteland of towering, silent cities, mute testimony to an atomic holocaust!

Two pockets of civilization survive: the drug-controlled inhabitants of Caster, and the freedom-loving people of Hyria. Soon the Alphans find themselves caught in the treacherous quicksands of civil war, their only allies a beautiful Hyrian with golden-brown eyes and an ancient man, the last custodian of the old wisdom.

This novel was only released in the U.S. in 1976.