About the book: 2021 / Ryland Grace comes to his senses on board a spaceship. He doesn't remember his name and has no idea how he ended up here. The only thing he knows for sure is that he was sleeping, and now he has woken up and is accompanied by a couple of dead people. Memories come in fragmentary pictures... It seems that he once worked as a school teacher, and then... damn, what happened then? Having finally reconstructed the series of events that happened, Ryland is horrified by the enormity of the task entrusted to him - to prevent the extinction of the human race. This extremely difficult mission is a one-way ticket, and he will never return to Earth. And it seems there is nowhere to wait for help…