In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to
prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon
hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to
study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left
before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins --
the only even remotely qualified professional within light years of the
ill-fated planet -- must lead a small scientific team to the surface to
glean whatever they can about its life forms and lost civilizations
before time runs out.
But catastrophe awaits when they are stranded on this strange and
complex world of puzzles and impossibilities. And now Hutch and her
people must somehow survive on a hostile world going rapidly mad -- as
the clock ticks toward apocalypse for a doomed enigma.