Deep in the heart of the galaxy the unknown planet spun like a vast spider in its web, radiating a deadly and mysterious energy. Far out in space aboard the ethership Meteoric, Donley was the first to sense the sinister, almost imperceptible attraction of the strange power source. Then the others felt it too - the monotonous throbbing that pulsed through the ship, the altered sensations of every man on board. Slowly, inexorably, the crew of the Meteoric felt themselves being pulled toward-what? Hovering on the outermost edge of space, the rogue planet Ormin was waiting to receive them. Ormin, the Doomsday Planet, where all who set foot there were doomed to living death . . .