Author: Phillip Jose' Farmer / Year: 1918-2009 / Genre: Sci-Fi Alan Green is a space traveler stranded on a barbaric planet who has been taken slave and made a
consort to an insipid and smelly queen. His slave-wife, though beautiful and smart, nags him constantly.
He’s given up hope of ever returning to Earth when he hears of two astronauts who have been
captured in a kingdom on the other side of the planet, and sets out on an action-packed journey on
a ship sailing across vast grasslands on rolling pin-like wheels in a desperate scheme to save them
and return home.