The city-sized, deep-space cruise ship "Infinity 8" stops halfway in
route between the Milky Way and Andromeda, blocked by a massive field of
debris containing wreckage and artifacts from countless planets,
cultures, and possibly dimensions. The captain of the ship calls upon
eight of the ship's top security to investigate the anomaly, each one
sent out in a parallel time-loop to collect information which can then
be assembled to hopefully discover the truth before disaster erupts.
Each time-loop lasts only eight hours, at which point things snap back
to the way they were when they started, with no memories of their time
in that window. Can the eight agents solve the mystery without making
things worse? Danger reveals itself within the interspecies population
on the ship, some of whom may know more than they lead on . . .
The second in the eight-volume series of pulpy sci-fi adventures, this
time by legendary writer Lewis Trondheim and series designer Olivier
Vatine themselves. Another venture into the field of debris uncovers
some strange artifacts from numerous historical eras . . . including the
head of Adolf Hitler! Returning it to the ship for study turns
disastrous as their future science restores life and awareness to the
head, giving rise to the threat of a brand new Reich made up of robots
and fanatics who've lost all understanding of the genocidal agenda the
former dictator originally unleashed!
Crucial information transmitted by first agent Yoko Keren (at the end of
Vol.1) has made the Captain decide to launch a new parallel time-loop
and activate a second agent: the impulsive Stella Moonkicker, who will
only have eight hours to collect the maximum amount of information
possible. Flanked by Bobbie, her boring probation robot, shadowing her
since her most recent bout of "unprofessional conduct," she is assigned
as security for a group of fanatics who long for the return of the
Nazis, not fully understanding exactly what the Nazis actual did or
stood for. Their centuries-old impression has become watered down to
something like a simple philosophy for peace . . . a far cry from the
dangers of their actual original philosophy. But when they find the
cryonized head of Adolf Hitler floating in the mysterious wreckage
blocking the ship and try to reactivate it, the threat of a Fourth Reich
on the Infinity 8 proves to be very serious. Stella and Bobbie will have
to confront the reanimated Führer, who is confused by this strange
future and hell-bent on taking over the world (again). But if the
Captain is killed, no reboot can take place and the advent of the Fourth
Reich will become the only time frame to have ever existed . . .
