How could McGill Feighan know that a fun weekend on Rehma the Bird World would turn into a frightening go-round with a mysterious mutant virus, an assault by galactic goons, and, as always, into a frustrating search for the Far Being Retzglaran? After all, his Talent was Flinging people and cargo across the Universe, not foretelling the future. So McGill set out—with the assistance of the crimson-crested Dr. Th'hweet—to put things right on Rehma, so that once again the planet might be a place of nestlings and birdsong...