Dead Planet — Randy J. Jondal

Mason Paladin was 268 years old, but due to the alien device implanted in his brain, he still looked a muscular and well fit 22. Having survived two-and-a-half centuries on Varus 3, he was finally rescued by the captain and crew of the Starship Endeavor, straight out of 1960's science fiction. Believing that the unknown alien race that had transported him away from his beloved Earth had sent him to what was a parallel universe, he took his place upon United Earth in the year 2267. Traveling through space at warp speed and having experienced the alien races and science only dreamed of in his universe, he meets Juul, a beauty of snowy white hair and alabaster skin, estranged from the planet Netara. Pursued by her royal father seeking to return her to her place upon the throne, she and Mason escape in a stolen star cruiser. Their destination; the planet Hellania. There is only one catch to their escape...the planet is a dead planet where electricity does not exist...a planet from which they can never escape.