Kniga amerikanskogo fantasta Edmona Gamiltona perenosit chitatelya v dalekoe budushchee. Perezhiv epokhi voin zemnikh, chelovecheskaya tsivilizatsiya, ne izbavlennaya ot virusa nasiliya, prodolzhaet razreshat problemi vlasti uzhe v mezhgalakticheskikh masshtabakh.