It looked like the 'End of Days' for mankind. All human life on Earth had been wiped out. Or so thought the Molodni starship Captain as his moon-sized craft left Earth's solar system after seeding the planet with a 'pesticide' designed to wipe out all life with an intelligence above a certain level. He shouldn't have been in such a hurry to go home. Because there were survivors; widely scattered individuals who recovered from the attack and who found...