"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules---and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress." --Ransom K. Ferm

For Alex Vonnegut, Special Agent, with love

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

"Don't ask me why, old sport," said Stony, "but somebody up there likes you."