In There and Back Again , Murphy utters a few sage comments on the value of friends, and makes sure that all the named characters in the story turn out nicer and more huggable than we could have first thought they were. But There and Back Again does have a story of its own, told by Pat Murphy pretending to write in collaboration with a certain Max Merriwell, whose photograph on the back flap uncannily resembles Pat Murphy wearing a small mop on her chin, or perhaps Shirley Temple wearing a small mop on her chin. But the book does. So back to it. Here we go.
Gitana has other ideas.
Gitana is a tall female who looks like she might be from Old Earth. It turns out that he has scavenged a message pod which contains a call for help from a far-flung Farr who may have discovered a mother lode of holograph wormhole maps. From this point, we know the rest. Edgy clone friends Bailey and the Farr clones and Gitana go on a great adventure to find the wormhole map in a cave at the centre of the galaxy. They undergo an assortment of adventures, picking up friends and enemies as they go.