Cover Artist and Interior Illustrator: Jack Gaughan STRANDED ON A PLANET OF MONSTERS When the survivors of his starship were taken prisoner by the insect-creatures against whom Earth had fought a bitter war for nearly a century, Sector Marshal Warren expected to be impounded in a prison camp like those the EArthmen maintained. But the "Bugs" had a simpler method of dealing with prisoners—they dumped them on an uninhabited planet, without weapons or tools, and left them to fend for themsselves against the planet's environment and strange monsters. A "Bug" spaceship orbited above, guarding them. Escape was impossible, the "Bugs" told them—but it was absolutely necessary, for reasons Warren couldn't tell even his own men.