The Macrospace Consortium, a techno-corporate colossus, sponsors an educational field trip to its industrialized moonbase for the six top high school seniors in the country.

But five of the teens aren’t what they seem.  Embittered geniuses thoroughly alienated by America’s endless wars and mankind’s destruction of Earth’s environment, they’ve cooked the contest computers and take off for the moon as the field trip winners.  Their goal: hijack a nuclear powered spacecraft and escape to another planet — by any means necessary.

But the sixth group member, caught with weapons, is replaced by innocent science fair guy VARON BRENNER.  Can Varon defeat the teenage fanatics and the Macrospace puppet masters controlling them?