Publisher's Synopsis
In a quiet corner of the 9th dimension, a little planet called Bub drifts casually through space. The collection of stories about the people of Bub and their strange world is called Bublore, and it is being written now. "Trial by Levity" is the story of Puddle, a newsey in the big city, who prides himself on keeping his ears and eyes open. Puddle sells newspapers for the Nineday News, and he's trained and organized a crew of his fellow "school orphan" street urchins into a record-breaking newsey sales force. At the same time, Puddle and company are open to opportunity, and it isn't always on the up-and-up. A string of such opportunity lands Puddle with a pile of money and a miniature statue, but wraps him in a web of counterfeit bills, blackmail and mistaken identity.This all takes place against a backdrop of the weird physics of Bub, where Spontaneous Blizzards crush unwary people who are out-of-doors in the pitch black Shadow, and Gravity Anomalies can double one's weight, or cast one bodily completely off the planet. Clod and Dirt's monkeyfish scheme, the Grassway Little Finger, crooked Flint Fault's shady pawn shop, Puddle saving the Bank, and the big counterfeiting case are all somehow connected. When the dust has finally settled, Puddle didn't get the girl -- but the girl may have got Puddle.
