If, in a single day, a man marries off his former fiancée, buys a talking parrot with vampire tendencies, loses his apartment because of a fire—even his own, mind you—then plunges into a sewer manhole and miraculously avoids death during an encounter with aggressive robots, it seems nothing worse can happen to him. Oh, if only that were true… But Igor Magin realizes that this is only the beginning: on the far planet Brundagak, everyone who isn’t too lazy just wants his blood…