Picnic On The Orion Spur A coming of age story of three cousins from the Stone family, continuing the space saga started in the book Pi in Zero Gee. Growing through a series of adventures involving moral development, hard work, and helping others. The cousins move from carefree beer-drinking recent college graduates to hard-working space miners to explorers, and on to unwilling participants in a conflict on the far side of the Galaxy. On the way, they learn about interstellar ethics, alien friendships, and intelligent life at the Galaxy's Core. What holds value across a hundred stars? What might be the biggest prize an interstellar spaceship could bring home? Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Neil Armstrong, and now Jarrell Stone.