For lovers of sci-fi, fantasy, and literary satire who want to laugh and restore hope: a dizzying and highly entertaining menagerie of characters swaying between world's end and ecstatic rebirth. Personalities and perspectives interweave as Halycon Sage and friends-human, alien, and animal-try to save the earth while negotiating parallel universes, intergalactic communication snafus, and the vagaries of time travel. One reader writes "Delightful apocalypse...