About the book: year / Bob Shaw Fearless Captain Evmuk Kondar waited several thousand years before he saw the second spaceship. On the first one they brought him - and left him in exile on this planet, where there was not even a sign of food and where two hot suns poured out streams of light for seventeen months in a row so that the rocks melted and spread out in black streams. If it were not for Kondar’s unique ability to change the structure of his body, he would have died long ago from hunger, thirst and heat. Yes, however, he was almost dead at this point, and he had nothing else to do but wait patiently and wait. ...