There is more than one history of the world. Pred vecou definované moderné age, iné energetiky, wondrous a magické, on vládne univerzita, ich lore perfektované s nízkym kapitálom hieroglyfov, wizard-kings, a fabulous monuments. V roku 1970, a história named Pierce Moffett cestuje do New England krajiny, aby zadali knihu o AEgypt, ide o myšlienku, že nie je známa: to fyzikálne zákony univerzity once zmenil a môže zmeniť again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits v uzamknutom štáte Fellowes Kraft, author of romances o Will Shakespeare a Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him ha long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to AEgypt ...Shortlisted for the WORLD FANTASY and ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDs.