The second book - and first full-length novel - featuring Arcot, Wade & Morey, the Three Gadgeteers of space science. Following the repulsion of the invading Black Star, the threesome put together a faster-than-light spaceship, and find: ~ ~~ ~ The fugitive planets of the Black Star; ~ ~~ ~ A frozen cemetary-world of a lost race; ~ ~~ ~ And a knock-down, drag-out interplanetary war in another galaxy!