In 1972, while the U.S. and Soviet Union competed in their second annual Lunar Volleyball Competition, an uninterested astronaut found a cylinder near the crater Democritus. Inside was the journal of a young man who tells an unbelievable story about his extraordinary childhood.
Dogget Mann never asked for any of it. He never wanted to be mysteriously swept into the future of some other universe, or to be adopted by a floating robot and a one hundred and sixty nine year old scientific genius on the lam. He never hoped to be pursued across the solar system by genetically altered thugs and high-tech security forces.
He only wants to go home, even though everyone keeps telling him he never will. But what do they know, anyway?
