A computer with a big ego, a crazy nano-technology experiment, a mad flying-saucer excursion, a super-advanced fruit-machine that drives anyone crazy, a lone novice takes a voyage to the asteroids with a weird robot called Zen, an experiment in mass-transfer goes wildly wrong, a push-button (that eventually gets pressed) which sparks the remarkable imagination of a guy during a break in a busy work schedule, an impromptu shift to a parallel world in the same time.... etc