On space docking station Fargo-17, concessions clerk Mobysnail is writing a space opera. Tentatively titled, Snails 2300: A Space Odyssey, the novel is set in an alternate future where the survivors of planet earth are snails, who have now gained intelligence and are engaged in intergalactic travel. He needs to be in the mind of a snail and sketches, between selling snacks to space tourists, their dreams. Snail dreams.