A TICKET TO RIDE: Where the Fine Print Changed Galaxy

Ten dollars. A waiver nobody reads. A carnival booth that isn't quite a carnival booth.When Warren Flanagan - a government analyst exiled to a desk full of Bigfoot reports - discovers a fully staffed interstellar abduction scheme hiding behind a signature and a smile, he does the one thing nobody expects: he buys a ticket and goes to see for himself.What he finds isn't a crime. It's a town - a stubborn, funny, entirely accidental human settlement built by people who never planned to stay. Over the years that follow, Warren becomes its reluctant translator, its unlicensed diplomat, and eventually the only person either government trusts to tell them the truth.A comic science fiction adventure about loopholes, found family, and the strange, durable things people build when nobody's watching - and what happens when the paperwork finally catches up.