The starship Starfarer prepares for Earth's first interstellar voyage.
Its diverse faculty includes J.D. Sauvage, the alien contact specialist;
the other members of the alien contact department: Victoria Fraser
MacKenzie, Satoshi Lono, and Stephen Thomas Gregory; J.D.'s friend Zev,
the diver; a world-famous sensory artist; Crimson Ng, paleontologist and
performance artist; Miensaem Thanthavong, Nobel laureate; General
Nikolai Petrovich Cherenkov, cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union and (in
the eyes of the political entity that swallowed up his homeland) war
criminal; Griffith, the man from the GAO who says he's an accountant;
Infinity Kenjiro Yanagihara y Mendoza, the gardener, among other things;
and Florrie Brown, the first member of Grandparents in Space.
But political conditions on Earth are shaky and delicate. As J.D. her
colleagues eagerly anticipate their departure...... EarthSpace cancels
the deep space expedition.
So what do they do? They do what any red-blooded multi- national
starship faculty & staff would do. They steal the starship.
