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When Milky Way Management sends Soren Kierkegaard—fisherman and grandson of the great philosopher—to install Cold Fusion on an overheated Earth, Soren has a bad feeling about the trip to the Earth Station. But with the “Bump” temporarily suspended—technology that allows the transmission of people through the String Dimension and Membrane—there is no way home for the Milky Way outliers who live on Earth. Soren has no one to turn to but his jazz-loving, communist girlfriend—and with only Miko to rely on, failure seems inevitable.

Meanwhile, the American Security State knows that Cold Fusion will solve Earth’s energy needs for a thousand years, destroying a perfectly lovely diesel fuel economy that will cough out profits until it wheezes to a grinding halt.