Plot Introduction
Sixteen-year-old Barney is resigned to another boring vacation at his parents' summer rental, reading science-fiction novels and keeping out of the sun. The summer starts to get interesting when Barney learns their rental once belonged to a Captain whose insane brother had been locked up for twenty years in the bedroom where Barney now slept. Then the neighbors move in, bringing with them the game they call Interstellar Pig.
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