About the book: year / The first book in the "Spelljamming" series. A damaged spaceship crashes into Teldin Moore's farm. The captain of the ship, dying of wounds, gives the farmer a strange cloak, which she throws over his shoulders, accompanied by the words of her will about the special importance of this cloak. As it turned out later, space bandits - neogi - are hunting for the cloak. The farmer tries to take off his enchanted cloak, but all his attempts end in failure. He develops a plan aimed at freeing himself from the cloak and sets off, accompanied by the spaceship cabin boy who survived the disaster. The subsequent adventures end with Teldin aboard a Dwarf spaceship that takes off..