Harry Harrison 
Wheelworld 
To The Stars Book 2

Wheelworld: An unforgiving planet where the sun is about to rise and will not set for another four years; where an ancient peasant hierarchy still rules a society equipped with the highest technology; where the people are as dependent on visiting ships as they are on the very air that they breathe; home for some, but for Jan Kulozik it is an eternal prison.And when ships don’t come, Jan finds himself at the centre of an epic struggle for power, and survival…