Hilary Grendon sent her shabby, time-worn space pilot, Vagabond, to the smiling Earth, which quickly rose to greet her. Only the instinctive lightness of long practice prevented the blow, his hands were trembling so much on the control panel. Again the house is an old familiar Earth! He could hardly believe it! Perhaps it was only a dream, and he woke up among Saturn's inhuman sparkling cylinders, shuddering and crawling from their icy gaze....