The first book of the Q Series. Christian Queghan, Myth Technologist, highly respected scientist on the planet known as Earth IVn. Like so many other worlds colonized generations ago, Earth IVn was created to be as much like Old Earth as possible--though Old Earth itself is now the stuff of myth and legend . . . A machine has been developed that will project a researcher into one of the infinite number of possible futures of Earth IVn--with only a 50% chance of bringing him back again. Queghan would be the ideal subject, and Queghan cannot resist the idea of going where no man has gone before.