Abode of Life - Star Trek Novel, No 6 Author:Lee Corey The Abode of Life — The citizens of Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life around the need to survive The Ordeal -- until a strange visitor appears from out of nowhere. — The Enterprise, badly crippled and in desperate need of rep... more »airs, must seek help from a people who cannot believe in its existence. Mercaniad is about to blow, and James Kirk faces an impossible choice: to attack the sun itself and save his ship and crew -- or let a people live in peace in the only world they know....« less