Since John Bandicut thwarted Earth's destruction from a comet in *Neptune Crossing* and saved Shipworld from the boojum in *Strange Attractors*, his life has been a relentless series of battles against chaos. Barely escaping Shipworld’s grasp, Bandicut and his eclectic crew of aliens find themselves stranded on a distant ocean world, struggling to survive beneath its crushing depths. But t…
When John Bandicut embarks on a journey across the surface of Triton, he's unprepared for the whirlwind of chaos about to turn his life upside down. Soon, an alien quarx inhabits his mind, marking humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial life. This quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that uses chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, is determined to prevent a comet from c…