At the coldly gleaming Experimental Station, Outlaw Joel Hakkyt is confronted with a harrowing choice endure a life of grinding, endless slavery on Asgard, the hellish world of Alpha Centauri‚Aîor face a writhing, screaming death as a guinea pig in a twisted experiment. Naturally, he opts for Asgard, but what awaits him there is anything but ordinary. Join Joel on a journey where survival means confronting the unimaginable. - Summary by Robert Emmett Mcdowell