Lothar Klein has returned to Earth for the first time in many years, as an invited dignitary to witness the longest eclipse in recorded history. His young daughter travels with him to experience a new planet for the first time, but things do not go as expected, and Klein and his daughter are stranded on Earth as anarchy threatens to destabilise millennia of advancements.

Can Klein manage to find a way home before the gravitational effects of the planet prove fatal for his daughter?

NOTE- although this story is complete in its own right, it can also be read as a sequel to the novel 'A Man For All Centuries'