Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive.
Dueling as a means of settling disputes has been revived by the invention of the dueling machine, which allows two adversaries to have at each other in the imaginary world of their choosing, with no danger to either other than humiliation and the loss of the point in dispute, until the Kerak Worlds found a way to kill with the machine. Unless a young Star Watchman can solve the mystery, the warlike Kerak Worlds will gobble up the planets.
We are each born under our own star, and we are also tied to our own destiny. One day, the stars we are born under and the destinies we are tied together with shall meet, and our verse in the great song of life shall be sung.
A Sequel To At the Earth's Core. American David Innes narrates return to exotic, savage land below the Earth crust, old pal Abner Perry, female Mahar, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. He seeks beloved Beautiful Dian, torn away by trickery. He crosses the Pellucidar, the Land of Awful Shadow under a pendant moon, encounters prehistoric beasts & strange peoples.