At the crisis point of humanity's near future, the mysterious cult called the Chantry Guild arose. It was their contention that the computerize world society would fall to its own weight - that it would reduce Earth's billions to a mass of faceless biped ants.

They raised the call of destruction. Thay called upon alternate laws of science - tha powers of nature men had once called witchcraft. the necromantic anti-science of the past brought forward to save the world by destroying it!

Gordon Dickson's astonishing novel of the not-quite-human hero who turned the tude for the workd - and set the conditions for the cosmic migration that lead to the Dorsai - is one of his most effective and most unusual.