While on a routine photography mission in space, Gary Lane made a terrifying discovery. The universe isn't expanding, the way generations have been led to believe -- Earth's solar system is contracting, creating the illusion of expansion. And as the solar system contracts, its very existence is threatened. Mankind has, at best, months to live. Before he's through, his quest to save Earth will take him to Venus, Mars, Jupiter?and then beyond explored space, as he tries to forge an interplanetary alliance against uninown enemies . . . enemies bent on destroying every living thing in our solar system! A thrilling, long-lost novel from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, by one of the old-time masters!