Faster than light travel to the stars was a discovery of the great Saunder family and the vast Saunder fortune helped in the colonizing of alien worlds, among strange nonhuman races. But Anthony had no share in that fortune or heritage. He was only a clone. Then the catlike humanoid Whimeds came, asking him to use his skill in directing a presentation for the coming Interspecies Conference. And once he saw Yrae, their beautiful almost human-seeming star, he could not refuse, though the job seemed impossible and led to endless trouble. But all that was simple compared to what he found at the Conference.