Rendezvous On A Lost World

THE ROBOT ROAD TO FARAWAY

His was a dream few spacemen ever saw come true. Alan Kemp was an obsessed man—driven by the realization of a dream into the black emptiness between the stars.

In a rebuilt, second-hand, obsolete ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off—determined to set up a shuttle between the planets at the Rim of the galaxy.

But trouble—in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other ruled by the descendants of a murderous pirate—threatened. Kemp’s crew began to wonder: just how much will a man sacrifice to realize a dream?