Synopsis: From the first page of the Starblaze edition: "About the Story: "They had come so fast, the Lorsii, sweeping into the skies in their cloudy ships. Men had seen them coming and had reached our with electronic voices to cry danger; they died with the cry still echoing on a million wires... Died with fire in their lungs and disbelief in their eyes, as the stones of earth bubbled." Jon Paterson had in inkling of their coming - but only in strange and confusing dreams. Josiah Crick recognized them as Evil incarnate. Ibrihim Zlotny, Servant of the Duality, Vicar of the Left Hand, Supreme Commander of the Army of the Final Testament, knew that with their help he soon would be undisputed ruler of the world. No one could stand against the power of the Lorsii who exploded suns to watch the lovely colors and who wiped out whole races for their momentary amusement. Not one except Josiah Crick - who knew that Evil could never finally triumph. Crick's granddaughter, Rebecca, had a degree in mechanical engineering, and needed all of her skills to keep their old freightliner (cargo 12,000 tons of protein from the Prudhoe whale ranches) moving at all. But even she balked at carrying that crazy man from the Alberta Experimental Station to the final confrontation that might - just possibly - save the world. Lovin's treatment of Zlotny and his army of dedicated devils is details and convincing; but his development of the nature and culture of Lorsii is pure poetry. You can almost forgive them... Almost."