Larry Niven returns in grand form with the story of Planet Destiny, mankind's second attempt at colonising an inhabitable planet of a distant star.

Following a fight which ends in the accidental death of a trader, Jimmy Blocher is forced to flee the small community of Spiral Town. There is only one road he can follow - the long, straight road that was forged by the heat of lander-craft Cavorite as it left the same town 250 years ago.

An Avalon novel.