Characters
Carl Schirmer: An everyman who is abducted and transformed by the Eld Skyle. A reluctant hero who soon learns to wield a laser baton, fly a rocket ship, and find true love.
Eld Skyle: An eighth-dimensional life-form who feeds on the imperfections of other life-forms, transforming them into idealized versions of their former selves.
Evoë: A denizen of the strange world the Eld Skyle brings Carl to.
Zee: A friend of Carl's who discovers key secrets to the universe.
The book can be read without having read the rest of the series.
The book was re-released by Phoenix Pick in 2008.
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“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
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“Of the other characters in the book there is, likewise, little to say. The most endearing one is obviously the old Captain Maksim Maksimich, stolid, gruff, naively poetical, matter-of- fact, simple-hearted, and completely neurotic.”
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