Javelin Praecox has one goal--to wash dishes on every inhabited planet in the solar system. His first stop, a mining base on Uranus, promises to be pretty easy, with the native stickies (something like an ant made out of marshmallows) to do all the work. But then more crew members disappear, and a mysterious creature smears feces throughout the base. While tracking the stickies to learn what they do with the leftover food they collect, Javy is caught in one of the weirdest prison camps ever! Can he and the other crew members escape before it's too late?