When salesman Ralph Carson Drake tries to recover his missing memory of the past two weeks,
he discovers he had interactions with three people: a woman named Selanie Johns who sold
remarkable futuristic devices for one dollar, her father, and an old gray-eyed man who is
feared by Selanie and her father.
Van Vogt combined this with two other stories and a
little fix-up material for his 1970 publication of Quest for the
Future.
— Michael Main
The Palace of Immortality was built in an eddy of time, the only known Reverse, or
Immortality, Drift in the Earth Time Stream