The appearance of an alien spaceship is sudden and shocking, bursting into existence in a flash of writhing blue lightening then flaming out and lying dead and cold above the earth.
Behold the many worlds of the civilized sphere, where glistening spires and domes sprawl among rolling verdant fields, where dreary concrete towers loom over those forever watched by the Great Mind, where endless possibilities span before those with hordes of friendly and intelligent robots glad to serve them.
Forced to leave his own planet because of a civil war, Prince Anton flees into the unknown universe with only his all-knowing, automatonic horse, Thurgose, for company.
