Humanity's last hope lay in one spaceship racing through the voids of the universe. 

The Red Tide had all but engulfed the Earth, and there was just enough time to find Omega, the planet that had long ago been colonized -and then had simply disappeared. 

After four years in space, the ship felt the hand of calamity all at once.

Its food stores were destroyed by a meteor crash.

Its crew was set to mutiny.

And, worst of all, was the threatening alien ship, with its strange cargo of human bodies....

Enter the intriguing and unpredictable world of Keith Laumer in this volume, which also contains “The Night of the Trolls,” “The Other Sky," and “The King of the City.”