There they are taken in by Jack Havoc, notorious teenage space pirate and heartthrob, and his misfit but lovable crew of extraterrestrials. When Father is regrettably detained by a rather large, threatening, white space spider, quite the size of an elephant, Art and Myrtle escape on a lifeboat and land on the Moon. Webster, Art awakes to find the exterior of the house has been trussed up like an Egyptian mummy in thick white strands of spider webbing. On the morning, that Father anticipates the arrival of a visitor, a Mr. Father is a scientific gentleman who studies ichthyomorphs, which Arthur refers to as space-fish, and Mother is presumed dead, tragically lost while aboard a space vehicle several years back in 1848. Twelve-year-old Art Mumby loves being out there, but his older sister Myrtle finds it dreadfully dull and bleak, and dreams of living in England. It was constructed in the early 1700s, which, if you recall your history, was just a few years after Sir Isaac Newton's discoveries made it possible for people to travel and then live in Space. Larklight is a rambling, ramshackle house that spins on its own remote orbit out in the deeps beyond the moon.
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