Larry Niven is the author of science fictions classics such as the RINGWORLD series, THE INTEGRAL TREES and DREAM PARK. He is the creator of the popular MAN-KZIN series and co-author of bestsellers such as LUCIFER'S HAMMER and THE LEGACY OF HEOROT and the no.1 New York Times bestseller - FOOTFALL. Now he returns in grand form with the story of Planet Destiny, mankind's second attempt at colonising an inhabitable planet of a distant star. Following a fight which ends in the accidental death of a trader, Jimmy Blocher is forced to flee the small community of Spiral Town. There is only one road he can follow - the long, straight road that was forged by the heat of lander-craft Cavorite as it left the same town 250 years ago.