They called their secret society Members of the Human Race, but the majority of humanity preferred to call them “the Inhumans.” That’s because it was generally believed that they were a vicious masked gang of vivisectionists, mutators, and monster-makers.
MAN AGAINST TIME John Lux was an electronic scientist, a level-headed industrialist, an ordinary twentieth-century man – at least he thought he was an ordinary man…
Until he discovered he could teleport himself…
Until he discovered that forces 200,000 years beyond his time were trying to destroy him…
Until he discovered that civilization of the future was being pampered into extinction in a kindergarten world and he was the only man in all eternity who could save it.
But until John discovered how to use his dormant neuro-radionic powers, he was a helpless pawn in a time war – and both he and the planet were doomed…
Lafayette O’Leary, to his acute discomfiture, has an exhilarating and terrifying tendency to slip continua. And what might that mean?
It might mean finding oneself a gypsy with a ring in his ear at one moment, and then suddenly a crippled birdman unable to leave his nest because of the awkward loss of teleporting talent.
It might mean battling one’s way back to the time stream where he started – only to find himself already there, lording it over the populace like a tyrant.
