Chapter 9
Mosserrania was as carefully designed and engineered as anything else ConSpace invested in. Visitors could always find what they sought, but they were never confronted with anything else. A family with small children wouldn’t accidentally wander into a gambling palace, or a resort devoted to adult entertainment. And no adults would be forced to wander through pastel fairy tale landscapes when they sought only more mature activities.
There was no need for such surprises, not with a string of vast islands circling the planet, each dedicated to a specific sort of recreation.
What Jim and his friends sought waited in the middle of one of the larger family complexes, only a short air-bus ride from the main arrival terminal. The flat, sandy expanse had been converted into a water pa
