Everything in the universe is insured. Except what matters.Odrin Vasquel has been a loss adjuster for twenty-four years. He reads every clause twice, the second time out loud, and he has never once believed a claimant who serves pastries.Now Perennial Mutual wants to know whether he is worth more than an algorithm that settles claims in eight-tenths of a second. To find out, it has assigned him a compliance unit: Kesse, a pony-sized corporate glyptodont who records everything, obeys everyone and calls him a high-risk client.

Do not call her an armadillo.From a sea of industrial gelatin to a theme park run by unpaid animatronics, from a toll station with fourteen hundred windows to a planet suing the map for emotional damages, Odrin starts to notice that the small, ridiculous claims don't add up. Stolen comets. A siphoned gas giant. The largest policy in the company's history.

And a small white star that someone is feeding. On a schedule.Nobody believes him. Kesse calculates that he is losing his mind. She is also the only one who can help him prove he isn't, before a perfectly legal catastrophe pays out with every form in order.The Adjuster and the Armadillo is the first book in The Uninsured Universe, a comic science fiction series about the small print of the galaxy, the man who reads it out loud, and the armored machine who keeps count of how many times she has saved him.