Every spaceship pilot knows about the dangers of interdimensional travel. The flight time from Earth to Mars is twenty-four hours, but where will you end up if something goes wrong? Having set the coordinates to the arrival point, Artem Sorokin was preparing to plunge into a deep anabolic sleep. In a day it will arrive in Mars orbit, and in a week it should return home. This time the sleep lasted longer than usual, and there was a glitch in the navigation system. There is not enough energy for a return jump; the estimated flight time to Earth is several thousand years.