Space Monsters! Space Ships!

Here's a teaser Image for SM!SS! and some text to boot. Or is it "too" boot. Is the expresion about having too many boots? Anyway...

Recovered from low earth orbit the probe contained just three pieces of cargo.

An envelope of kidney stones, a dehydrated parasite of unknown origin, and the right hemisphere of a brain belonging to Algernon Rost -- famed exobiologist. It was inscribed with his brain diary.

What follows are his memories. They begin 1,000 years ago and cover the indeterminate* period of time that follows.


*Relativity!!!