Sam is a professor. Sam is dying. The Creature at the Bottom of the Europan Ocean strikes up an interplanetary conversation with Sam and two of his students. And with you if you read this book. Sam races against his nemesis Arvin Bingleking, a fictional character in a book he is writing, to save this dead and dying planet that is far beyond saving, all the while trying to survive death. It’s so good to be alive, even better to be aware, the creature shouts across time and space, and Sam is trying to figure out if this is true.