Tom Parent and his wife Lucy are chosen as representatives to galactic civilization, and to prevent Earth from becoming a ward of a more "advanced" species. Unfortunately, Lucy is?or may be?a Wilf. And Magnificent or not, you know what that means....

With most of the world wrapped in a hypnotic deep sleep, Rafe Harald arrives from the moon to find a friend and is shadowed by agents of the failing world government and a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.

The time storm had ravaged the Earth; now it threatened all of space and time. "...a superb job." ?Publishers Weekly