Barry Kettle, a sunburnt parking attendant from Basingstoke, owns a suitcase covered in stickers from forty-one places he has never been. Today he is finally going somewhere: Nebulair flight NB-404, Economy Class to Andromeda. First he has to survive the budget spaceport's fees, sizers and liquid rules, then seat 47-Z between two enormous cephalopods. A science-fiction comedy about the longest, strangest flight of his life.