In a universe where spaceships traveled from planet to planet within the time it took you to eat your breakfast, where children rode rocketbikes and computers talked back to their owners, there lay a planet in the deep, dark corners beyond cosmos and light, called Anchorda. On this planet were giant wasps; space worms the size of freight trains swamps where mosquitoes were as big as pterodactyls and forests that could play tricks on their weary travelers...