A Planet's Entire Ocean Pours Into A Bottomless Cosmic Abyss That Never Fills

For twenty-two years, an aging captain has fished the rings of a sea that drains endlessly into a vast hole past the horizon, where the catch grows richer the closer a boat dares to go. Each time he comes up short, the cannery that owns his trawler rivets another iron plate to her bow, and the newest one now sits at the waterline. One more short season will cost him his boat.

The only water rich enough to save him lies beyond the Barren Ring, where no bird flies and no net comes up with anything...