An astronomer and an industrialist attempt to assist aliens from a dying race whose spaceship has crashed, while their sons prepare two strange animals for the circus.
Psychopathology has offered possible answers to why, from time to time, people in large quantities "e;see"e; strange things in the sky which manage to evade trained scientific observers, or conform to what is known about the behavior of falling or flying bodies.
Without stressing the technological aspects of the strange powers of the widely-talented ones-the psis, espers, telepaths which have been so painstakingly forecast by Stapledon, van Vogt, Weinbaum, Vance and others-Messieurs Peterson and Staub have whipped fantasy, forecasts and facts into a stirring and mentally titillating story of a too-imaginative mind.
For fans of Dinah Jefferies, Victoria Hislop, Lucinda Riley and Rosanna Ley, this is a stunning and sweeping WW2 novel that shows a side to the war not often seen before.