Dr. Dennis Laff speaks six different languages and has seven advanced degrees. He can configure orbital trajectories in his head, recite Pi to a hundred decimals, and argue the finer points of thermodynamics. That's why the International Space Agency has tasked him with the sixteen septillion dollar effort to solve mankind's biggest problem: a faster form of space travel. In the 26th Century, the Earth is polluted, greatly overpopulated, and running fast out of resources. It's up to Laff and the biggest brain trust in the world to solve the problem. The answer might lie in wireless teleportation...or the mysterious properties of the newly found foreign element Redinium... or the solution might lie in Laff's obsessive relationship with Canadian Tour Guide Rebecca Gomez. Laff has everything but the consolation of his totalitarian superiors...and he'll get right on the quantum physics of tether tech, sun solar sails, and launching laser lightcraft using his own Startlight engine just as soon as he can figure out how to work the coffee machine in the break room.