I read this in high school as a pocket book version. I was fascinated by the female life-like androids. Lol ( )

Picks up with our protagonist from Homeworld being exiled to another planet that is being used to produce food for the empire. On this planet Summer only comes every four years but when it does, it burns everything, causing the colonists to have to make a global convoy to the other hemisphere. This is the year to move but there is one problem; the ships haven't come yet. It is up to Jan, the brilliant engineer and strategist, to get them there safely.

I like these tight little 200 page sci-fi novels that I can read in an afternoon. Whereas the last novel was a little predictable, this one read more like a Doug McClure movie. It gains a half star on it's predecessor because of some added tension that the previous book didn't have. ( )