Destiny Doll Author:Clifford D. Simak The Planet beckoned them from space, and closed round them like a venus Fly Trap! — Captain Mike Ross finds himself leading an interplanetary expedition to an anonymous planet that welcomes them with a homing beam and then seals shut around them. Their ship is sealed against them and they are hurled into a wholly inhospitabl... more »e desert. Assailed by strange perils and even stranger temptations, the little group stumbled towards its destiny -- Mike Ross, the pilot, Sara Foster, the big game hunter, blind George Smith, and the odious Friar Tuck. Before them was a legend made flesh, around them were creatures of myth & mystery, close behind them stalked Nemesis. The doll, the little wooden painted doll, was to be their salvation. Or their damnation, for each might choose, and find, his own Nirvana.« less