Whims Of Creation

A World Within A Ship... The space ark, AGAMEMNON, is a multigenerational starship, an artificial world designed as a perfect ecosystem that will carry 100,000 human colonists and their descendants to the stars. But midway through the voyage, the perfect society begins to fall apart. People are dying, committing suicide, and nobody knows why. And in a closed and balanced ecosystem supported and maintained by self-aware computers, strange creatures that could not possibly exist have suddenly started to appear: fairies, dwarves, elves, unicorns ... and even dragons. No one aboard the ship knows anything about these creatures or where they could have come from and the computers cannot provide the colonists with any answers. Meanwhile, three young misfits have discovered a secret, interactive cyber-game hidden within the education programs that seems to hold some clues to what is happening. But to find the answers, they must complete a quest in a fantastical virtual reality, where their minds encounter dangerous scenarios while, back aboard the ship, their bodies have mysteriously disappeared....