ITS COMING! WE HAVE TO GO!! A runaway planet is on a direct collision course with earth, threatening to reduce it to nothing more than dust and pebbles. Its too big to deflect and too solid to destroy. We cant avoid it and we cant survive it. The only hope for mankind is to not be here when it hits. The only saving grace is that the destruction will not occur for two hundred and thirty years. Can the people of the world set aside their egos and petty differences, not to mention centuries old distrusts and hatreds, and work together to find a new home planet and develop a way to get there before its too late? If not then its not just the earth that will be destroyed, but the human race as well. Does another planet that could support human life exist? Is faster than light travel which could get us there possible? Will our intelligence and spirit of sacrifice save us? Or will our blind adherence to self-interest doom us? Two hundred thirty years..and counting!--from back cover.