It's just another boring late night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Seeth, a disillusioned punk rocker with too much time on his hands and too little money. That is, until he heads to a bowling alley and runs into Kerwin, a geeky graduate student who's there doing research for a sociology assignment. While trying to distract Kerwin from his scholarly pursuits, Seeth notices two burly cops trying to unlawfully, arrest a lone bowler, and for laughs, he jumps in to save him.
When it turns out the bowler, the cops, and even the bowling ball are all different races of aliens involved in an interstellar chase, Seeth and Kerwin find themselves on a ship careening through space-protecting a mysterious, all-powerful lifeform that might possibly be the most valuable thing in the universe.
Seeth's found the excitement he wanted. And he didn't even have to leave Albuquerque, just Earth.
