The Reefs of Space - Starchild, Bk 1 Author:Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson Steve Ryeland knew that he was a criminal, who had failed the Plan of Man...but he could not remember his crime. Around his neck he wore an iron collar contianing an explosive charge that would destroy him if he tried escape; but what he had done that had put it there he could only remember in tantalizing fragments.