How could McGill Feighan know that a fun weekend on Rehma the Bird World would turn into a frightening go-round with a mysterious mutant virus, an assault by galactic goons, and, as always, into a frustrating search for the Far Being Retzglaran? After all, his Talent was Flinging people and cargo across the Universe, not foretelling the future.
So McGill set out -- with the assistance of the crimson-crested Dr. Th'hweet -- to put things right on Rehma, so that once again the planet might be a place of nestlings and birdsong...