A Wreath of Stars Author:Bob Shaw THORNTON'S PLANET was discovered in 1993. As it streaked toward head-on collision with Earth, the world watched in awe. For Thornton's Planet might cross Earth's path, but the two worlds would never touch. Thornton's world inhabited a universe separate from, yet parallel to, our own. When the sky show... more » was over, most people forgot about the astronomical oddity and resumed their daily lives. That might have been the end of it, except for Gil Snook and the strange creatures he saw at the bottom of a mine shaft. For while Thornton's Planet was gone, the alternate universe remained, and with it another phantom planet whose fate Gil Snook now held in his hands.« less