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The Gray protects the Neutrals and maintains a delicate balance between the Light and the Dark. Vilstair works as an officer of the Gray police. She is dispatched to a desert world to hunt down a criminal. The world itself proves as tricky as the chase itself. The criminal has far more allies than she anticipated -- and he discovered a great secret.

The video store where the VHS cases keep the monsters at bay. The late-night craving for a hot dog that unravels into a tale of gunplay, espionage, and microfiche. The discovery that the only thing capable of saving us from robot annihilation is poor penmanship.

A girl from Kansas wins a ride to orbit in a lottery. A physicist sets up a mysterious experiment on the same ship. When the experiment is turned on, the girl from Kansas takes the ship through the mysterious Beyond to a new star. Thus begins an intriguing future history in which humans have a rare talent for exploration that is the envy of all the Galaxy.