Part one of term paper
This story has four main characters, they have been chosen by a race called the puppeteers to investigate a gigantic artifact. Nessus, Louis Wu, Teela Brown, and Speaker-to-Animals are the ones chosen to do it, each of them because of particular qualities: Nessus for his insanity, Louis Wu because he has survived an adventurous life for 200 y ...

Part two of term paper
... in the worst possible way. Nessus meets Teela Brown, but it takes her some time to agree to come along. The price they are being paid for this adventure is a very advanced ship that can cover a light year in75 seconds. The excitement start when S.T.A. (speaker-to-animals) tries to highjack the ship, he fails. They head to the artifact, a gigantic band constructed around a sun; they try to contact the inhabitants, in many ways, but fail. They end up crash landing onto the planet. They find that ther ...