"If Hunter's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and Douglas' 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' got together for a drunken night of partying, this book would be their illegitimate love child." -Author We were somewhere around Beta-Lyrae, on the edge of the Deserted Basin stretch of the Vega Run when the thugs began to take hold... of our necks. They'd just burst in and I remember thinking to myself, "Jebus, only four Jumps from Earth and we're already getting mugged. I wonder if they'll give me an interview." The thought, like the oxygen to my brain, was cut short as the larger of the two held Art and I pinned by our necks to the ship's cramped cabin wall. Through tearing eyes I watched as the smaller one began roughly rummaging through our bags before turning to the wall safe. It's about then I realized I was way too @$#ing high for this...