Viewpoint

Broom wakes in a haze with his memory shattered and his senses already telling him something has gone terribly wrong. Trapped in a strange room where ordinary-looking objects feel subtly false, he begins to piece together a nightmare of imprisonment, altered perception, and fear. As fragments of his conversation with Contarini return, he suspects the impossible: that time travel has hurled him far into the future and left his mind scrambled in its wake. Exploring cautiously, Broom touches walls that only seem wooden and confronts a humming machine beyond his understanding. When he looks outside, he is stunned by a vast night city of towering buildings and impossible bridges, dazzling in scale yet eerily empty. With no people in sight and the sense that he may be watched, he moves into the hallway, increasingly aware that this brilliant future world may be as dangerous as it is bewildering. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.