There was a new star in the sky—another sun heading directly for the Solar System on a collision orbit. It meant the end fo the world!

Creohan, who made the discovery, realized that in a few short years the oceans would boil, the forests and cities would be engulfed in flame, and life would be scorched from the surface of the world. But Creohan also knew that somewhere among the accumulated lore of 100,000 years of civilization ther would be the scientific knowledge that would even turn a star aside.

But finding that knowledge turned out to be a nightmare. For none of the decadent people of the 100th Millennium would listen to him; thus, one man alone sets forth on a quest to rescue a world.