Synopsis: From the front flap of the Tor first edition: "Karen Guerreri is a struggling science fiction writer with a serious problem: the telepathic alien jellyfish in her current work in progress, a novel called Preternatural, are trying to communicate with her. Has she invented the aliens, as she desperately hopes, or have the aliens invented her? Or is she just losing her mind? And if she is going crazy, can she still sell the movie rights? Throw in a self-proclaimed New Age mystic, the stars of a cult science fiction TV series, the pharaoh Akhenaton, a dying artist, a female messiah, and the burning of the Library of Alexandria, and you have more outrageous weirdness than any SF writer - or telepathic jellyfish - can ever hope to cope with."