The Star of Hesiock — John Rankine

Sam Shepherd, minding his own business, with his car locked on the freeway safety strip, was a surprised man when he saw Jean Quale draped like a wet sack over a five barred gate. Stopping to check out what she was up to, put his feet on a path littered with uncertainty. He was hooked to a sequence that had its own inbuilt logic even when it projected him in galactic travel to the neighbourhood of Alpha Centauri. You will never again be sure that your companion on the walkway is not from the dying world of Deinos.