Saturnalia

Professor Kurious Whitedimple was an unassuming teacher of archaeology at Space-Home University...

Junior Badille was a 20-year-old wrinkled gnome with an improbably high IQ, living with his parents in an isolated research station orbiting Saturn at 3.5 million kilometers...

The odds of these two meeting, sharing high adventure, and forming a lasting friendship were astronomical – on the same order, for instance, as the accidental discovery of an alien artifact on the surface of lapetus...