The Creatures That Time Forgot: In the Shadow of Evolution, Only the Fierce Endure

On a world too close to its sun, human life burns out in a single frantic week. Sim is born into terror, watching his parents age and die in hours while avalanches thunder outside their cliffside caves and dawn itself can kill. Racial memory and telepathy cram a lifetime of knowledge into his racing mind, but he has only eight days to do something no one has ever done before-defy a planet that wants him dead.

As he grows from newborn to fighter in mere hours, Sim gambles his short existence ...