Genius room designer Cairo Smetton and mechanical engineer/psychologist Sara Brunel look likely to set up home together for a major part of their 200+ year life expectancy. Cairo is rich and famous because he creates rooms of furniture that are accepted as the equals of old master paintings. But then Cheerful (by name but never by nature), the leader of the most powerful criminal gang on the mammoth spaceship Eagle Ship A7, takes over Cairo's life. Kidnapped, imprisoned and threatened, Cairo has no option other than to continue to create his works of art. The money disappears into Cheerful's...