The RIM STAR seemed to be an ordinary enough spaceship bound for the planet Handel on a routine mission. Then young Braden, a merchant-space officer, discovered that there was something all wrong about the RIM STAR... — The captain was wrong, the crew mutinous, and there was even something wrong with the passengers. The ship was in deadly danger... For centuries space travelers had dreaded a place they called the Other Side of Nowhere—a place in the universe where up was down, where right was wrong, and where all direction was lost... To save the RIM STAR Braden had to bring the ship to the place of nightmare, the Other Side of Nowhere...