Dr. Benson should have been the perfect pigeon for the card game. Just a passenger on the spaceship, clumsy in zero G, awkward. Academic. Easy prey for the Tentacular Engineers who run the ship for the otherwise Human crew. But when Dr. Benson flails off with the winnings, he sets in motion a chain of manic events, as Humans and Tentaculars fight to retrieve the kitty, hide secrets, or catch unfaithful spouses. At the end of shift, someone's going to breathe vacuum!