Space Duck and his associate Robot (a robot named Robot) stumble through a series of adventures in this collection of five short stories and novella. The year is 2615 and the solar system is packed with alien races, murderous AIs and a Martian Princess who needs to be rescued (too bad they sent Space Duck to perform the rescue). Space Duck is a part time adventurer and full time pretty criminal who was created in a lab to survive in the airless conditions of outer space. Working with him is the free thinking robot, Robot, who craves adventure while acting as a voice of reason in Space Duck's throughly unreasonable existence. Together they do their best to survive in a universe that is funny, heartfelt and occasionally just absurd.