Chapter 1I’d never had a particularly vivid imagination, so when I had another of the dreams that would wander occasionally through my sleep, I put it down as being the result of the science fiction magazines I’d brought into the house when I was younger. I hadn’t had to sneak in copies of Amazing Stories or Argosy or Astounding Stories as other boys did because no one in the household bothered to see what I carried in my bookbag. As long as I brought home excellent grades, which my parents could boast about, and which, as a child prodigy I was guaranteed to do, my parents gave me free rein to do as I chose.
Although a portion of my mind knew I was safely tucked in my bed, in this dream I wandered the corridors of the exploratory spaceship, Dev’o’s Honor. The captain, who was my friend, w
