The year 2137: Humans discover they’re not alone in the universe. Competition between the SpaceHome Lagrangian colony and Earthers for first contact with the Aliens turns deadly in the rings of Saturn.
Kurious Whitedimple is an unassuming professor of archaeology at SpaceHome University: possessor of a boring life at .3G and a boring future.
Junior Badille is a 19-year-old wrinkled gnome with an improbably high IQ, living with his parents in an isolated research station orbiting Saturn at 3.5million kilometers: possessor of a lonely life and a short future.
The odds of these two meeting, sharing high adventure, and forming a lasting friendship are astronomical ... on the same order, for instance, as the accidental discovery of an alien message on the surface of Iapetus....
The year 2137: Humans discover they’re not alone in the universe. Competition between the SpaceHome Lagrangian colony and Earthers for first contact with the Aliens turns deadly in the rings of Saturn.
Kurious Whitedimple is an unassuming professor of archaeology at SpaceHome University: possessor of a boring life at .3G and a boring future.
Junior Badille is a 19-year-old wrinkled gnome with an improbably high IQ, living with his parents in an isolated research station orbiting Saturn at 3.5million kilometers: possessor of a lonely life and a short future.
The odds of these two meeting, sharing high adventure, and forming a lasting friendship are astronomical ... on the same order, for instance, as the accidental discovery of an alien message on the surface of Iapetus....