Brothers of Earth Author:C. J. Cherryh Stranded forever on an alien planet...there was only one way to survive! The ship died silently, a manmade star that glowed brilliantly, then quickly winked out of existence. Kurt Morgan watched her from the view screen of his survival craft until there was no more left to see. There had been eighty people on the "Endymion"...over one hundred mo... more »re were aboard the enemy vessel--now nothing was left but dust and vapor. No report of the violent encounter would go back to Central...there would be no rescue ships sent to investigate...and Kurt's survival capsule had no starflight capability. It all added up to a silent, freezing death in space, unless Kurt found an Earth-type planet somewhere in this vast, uncharted solar system.« less