Publisher's Synopsis
Five student scientists, each the best its species had to offer, were one step away from the prestigious degree called respection opinion. Their final exam was an expedition to enigma, a tiny planet circling a netron star, a world with so little mass that it should not have had an atmosphere - yet enigma did. The study was to find out why. Everything seemed to be running smoothly - until the team's mapping robots began to disappear. Then molly, the only human member of the team, was accidentally blown into a deep fissure, and she found herself trapped in a series of caves and tunnels that ony led her deeper into the riddle that was the heart of enigma. Her concerned companions soon followed and in the maze of caverns beneath the planet's surface they found enigma's most puzzling anomaly: life which couldn't possibly exist...7/3/88-offsetting ballantine edition: a: 10000 at $3.50: 288pp: uc=47p: max. UK YES
