Senior Planetary Specialist and Biometsytems Engineer Major Quinn McCoy becomes stranded on an Earth-like planet that his ship, the Discovery, was investigating, when his shuttle is damaged on his return flight. Rescue was unlikely. He had to eject the jump drive before it exploded. It was most likely detected by the Discovery and he would written off as deceased. No one within three miles could survive such an explosion as that. But he did He rode the remains of his shuttle for the three hundred mile semi-controlled fall back to the planet where he crashed into a large meadow between a...