Beyond the border of reality lies an entirely random condition of existence, where mathematiics and probability have no force. Trapped in this pocket of unspace, four very different travelers experience all the alternative potentialities of their interwoven lives, live through the possibilities of racial myth, memory and fantasy—all the while battling their way back toward orderly existence! "A beautiful and exciting and extraordinary book. Some of Joseph's alternate worlds are magical. nor does he neglect something of the pathos behind human 'relationships.