As a telepath, Krison Camarch is despised by humanity. Pursued by authorities for a crime he didn't commit, he finds himself aboard the starship freighter Birmingham, in the company of a strange little alien of a race he has never seen before. A group of archeologists has leased the Birmingham to explore a planet only visited by mankind once before, two centuries earlier. To his horror Camarch discovers that the trip is a ruse, and that he is being kidnapped from his time and place to play a role billions of years in the future. On the planet Uzoxes, and in the mind-bending ruins of C'has Lai, Camarch discovers that juggling the future has devastating ramifications for the past.
