Lancelot Biggs: Master Navigator: When Blunders Become Brilliance in Outer Space

The Saturn is old, slow, and outclassed. When a secret government contract turns an ordinary Venus-to-Earth shuttle into a timed competition, the Corporation's oldest freighter finds itself racing the sleek Slipstream-a ship that can cross the void in nearly half the time. Captain Hanson knows the numbers. The engineer knows the limits. Even Sparks, the radio man, can do the math. There is no way the Saturn can win by speed alone.

Then space itself tears open.

A drifting vacuole-a roaming poc...