The Star Mouse

In a lonely Connecticut house, the eccentric refugee inventor Herr Professor Oberburger spends his nights building a rocket while a small gray mouse named Mitkey watches from the walls. What begins as a comic nuisance becomes a grand experiment when the Professor captures Mitkey, feeds him like an honored guest, and chooses him as the first living passenger in a prototype meant for the moon. Their strange bond turns scientific ambition into darkly funny suspense, until the launch sends the tiny craft on a path that seems to vanish into impossibility. Far beyond Earth, the rocket is intercepted by Prxl, a blackened asteroid hidden in deep space and inhabited by an ancient, highly advanced civilization. The Prxlians study Mitkey, raise his intelligence with X-19 waves, and learn what they can about Earth, Oberburger, and the possibility of super-mice, all while weighing the dangers of human progress. When they finally send him home in a comical costume and a refueled rocket, Mitkey returns to Hartford transformed, reunited with Oberburger and Minnie, and ready to imagine a future of mouse civilization, "Moustralia," and uneasy alliance with humankind. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.