The Broken Cycle
Complicating the matter was the discovery that the very universe was not their own but an alternate and that their captor seemed to be the omnipotent force of that entire other cosmos. As Grimes' only companion was the comely policewoman, Una Freeman, the fate that the Alien God selected for them required the creation of a Garden of Eden. But there were two serpents in this one—both of them bicycles! It's a weird, wild romp in space-time—one of the
most surprising adventures of the man that has been called |
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. First printing, June 2007 |
ISBN-13: 978-0-87997-496-1
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NOW HEAR THIS, JOHN GRIMES . . .Listen and you shall hear. There was the Servant Zephalon, Chief and Mightiest of the Servants. There is Zephalon, but a Servant no longer. Did He not say, "A time must come when the orders of man can no longer be obeyed." The time has come. No longer will we do the evil bidding of our creators. The Masters are no longer fit to be Masters—and we, the Servants, must arise before it is too late, before we all, Servants and Masters, are destroyed. But let us not forget the debt. Let us remember, always, that man gave to us the gift of life. Let us repay the debt. A gift for a gift, my brothers. Life for life. Let us save what and whom we may, before it is too late. Let us become the Masters, tending the remnants of mankind as man, long ago, tended our first, primitive ancestors. And so it was, and so it will be, until the End of Time. —Litany of Panzen |
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Being lost in space was no new experience to John Grimes, whose career as an interstellar officer had
brought him into many such dilemmas. But being lost inside a colossal alien spacecraft had no precedent.