PROBLEM ONE: An Earthman is suddenly and mysteriously transposed to an alien planet: an utterly empty, completely lifeless outpost of a far-flung galaxy. The Earthman has no idea where he is, how he came to be on the godforsaken world, or how to get home. PROBLEM TWO: For company there is only a computer: a computer which has all the answers to all of the Earthman s questions. But the computer is programmed to give information only to those properly trained and qualified to understand it. The Earthman is not. SOLUTION: The Earthman must outwit the rigid electro-mechanical being to leam the secrets that will get him back to Earth . . . but the solution is the biggest problem of them all!