After ten laid-back years, the zany crew at Jake Stonebender's little Key West bar is presented with a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with telepathy, teleportation, and time travel might not be able to crack it...

Shara Drummond went to space to create a new art form: zero gravity dance. And when the aliens arrived, her stardance was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars.

On the rarefied asteroid world of Top Step, humans are able to live indefinitely in a vaccum by joining with a symbiotic lifeform that provides all needed nourishment. But to some, this alien symbiosis represents a threat to all human...