When Joan Carmody sends a plea to her ex-boyfriend Bert Redmond, he barrels from Indiana to
upstate New York in a trice, only to see Joan and her borderline-mad brother Tom kidnapped by
metal monsters from another dimension. Fortunately, a mourning, immortal wanderer through
time and space also sees the abduction and fills in Bert with all the salient details and
some unsalient ones, too.
— Michael Main
“We are here only as onlookers,” the Wanderer explained sadly, “and can have no
material existence here. We can not enter this plane, for there is no gateway. Would that
there were.”
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