Galactic DerelictTravis, an Apache, is out scouting for water for the ranch's herd when he is captured by a man with a strange gun. It turns out the guy is part of a group of men who plan to go back into the past and examine a crashed alien spaceship. The spaceship exists at a time when mammoths and like animals still lived on the earth. They manage to get there, but the ship they get into is brought into the present and then launches itself, sending the small group of men on an adventure to other worlds. They visit a refueling station run by robots, a world of sand with some kind of hidden intelligent dangers, and another world with ruins of various buildings and life forms that are both friendly and dangerous. The task they then face is trying to figure out how to get back to earth, and to the earth of the correct time. The book was originally copyrighted in 1959. The story is a really good one, especially for its time. The things that happen in the story make sense, and the story itself is very interesting. |