A rude, mischievous and intensely personal work of science fiction, fantasy and solid British humour, this story draws on an eclectic array of topics from history to physics to art to psychology. It is the story of one man's odyssey through space and time, from youthful fulfilment of an alien civilisation's prophecy to the hunt for the perpetrators of a heinous act of pan-galactic genocide. Peopling this epic journey are ordinary and extraordinary humans, ordinary and extraordinary aliens,...