WANTED: ONE OUTLAWED SPACE PILOT!
Home, the spaceship's pilot, had been warned. "Don't forget the meteor
swarm." And Home's directional calculations for the Vega Queen's course
took that advice into account; the spaceship would go fifteen thousand
miles out of its way to avoid those deadly celestial rocks.
But when Home went off duty, he felt himself numbed by a curious
druglike leadenness. And the next thing he knew, he was in a lifeboat,
speeding away from the floating wreckage of the Vega Queen.
Eighteen survivors out of one hundred and fifty-three passengers. And
each one in the tiny space shell believed Home responsible...deliberate
negligence, calculated destruction... Someone had drugged Home, he knew;
someone had tampered with the ship to alter its course. But who and for
what cosmic purpose?