This is another of the books I would never have read had it not been for this site. I would probably have lived out the rest of my days without having heard of this author as he is not published by a mainstream publishers but exists in the misty regions of small press publishers. And those misty regions can contain some real gems of books, go on check them out!

The story here concerns a man who is cast adrift between realities being pulled from one version of Earth to another against his will and at some cost (judging from the painful descriptions the author gives us). When he meets a fellow dimension traveller and discovers some unusual things about his former martial arts instructor he starts to believe there may be a purpose to his travels.

Having just re-read my summation of this book, it sounds a little pulp-ish, the kind of story you may have expected to see gracing the pages of Astounding or one of the other Golden Age monthly SF magazines, that have aged quite appallingly over the years, but this story is not stilted, nor predictable. It exhibits originality and contains fully fledged characters that I found appealing. It also does not suffer from the padding that I have found in a number of SF novels of the last few years. It is the length it is.

This novel is fast paced and at times, with the descriptions of moving rapidly through dimensions, almost a little too fast paced. Little time is spent padding out many of these realities and probably for the best, the story remains in them for such a short time, this details would be wasted.

The book does show the authors short story roots, but not in a bad way. We do not have a short story's worth of plot lengthened to fit a novel length, what we get here is a flowing series of linked stories that make up a whole tale in a pleasing manner.