Useless and the School Fete

Ewen "Useless" Euston is just trying to find his twin sisters at the school fete when he steps on a live wire behind the old fairy tree and vanishes into another world. The world looks like a fairy tale, but it runs on science. The elves in silver suits riding hover mats are intergalactic criminals who have been using the portal to abduct children. They have a quota to fill and a market off-planet, and sixteen kids are already trapped. The portal decays at sunset. Every child still in this ...