One morning, two years after Petey Myshkin Stephenson's mysterious adventures in "Otherwise," he and his best friend Chace Fusillade, who is very skeptical about this place "that both does-and doesn't-exist," are both swept away to sea and abducted by pirates in a world that has hardly changed in two and a half centuries, and where there is no U.S.A. because the original colonies lost the war against the British. There the boys discover they have...