The intemperate and unforgiving rock sentinel of Broughton Island, of the far flung sub Antarctic Tini Heke group, pays witness one day to the arrival of a solitary tourist, of a kind. A person of near equal intemperate and craggy nature, Mitch Broughton - a distant relative of the island's European namesake, accompanied by his long time companion - a parakeet of stout if not rhetorical vocabulary, stumble ashore to spend Three Days on Tini Heke. Gladys Garthportal enjoys a sip, a tipple, the occasional genteel swallow even. And with her best friend, Hilda, in tow, the two elderly chums find...

Part I An inorganic man, Drone Three, wakes en route from a long forgotten point of departure to the appearance of an ethereal female entity. With an unknowable destination in gradual approach upon the galactic horizon, and while in perpetual attempt to gain some sense of situation at hand, 'Three finds himself at increasing odds with the ship's - Ni'Shaar's - ubiquitous control computer. Part II Across the solar realm, the age old hope of interstellar contact has begun to fade. In the year 4085, a long awaited response is detected; one which literally appears to have originated from beyond...

The crew of Regilian intergalactic class freighter BlueStar are in for an unusual homeward journey. From a forty third century Earth to an altogether unexpected destination, they find themselves unwitting couriers of a mysterious, highly-sought after object. As their plight of unwilling fancy unfurls about them, a never before realized strand of possibility presents itself in the face of otherwise long accepted complacency. A suggestion, voiced from the periphery, echoes across the void as Paylos Irridu'an and crew meander forth with a few, newly found and never before suspected, friends in...