"This is the story of the discovery of Zoeite -- a new kind of element, electromagnetically united with Man at the deepest level. Brian Griffin, in a rattling good story with philosophical undertones, traces the fate of the human race over 500 years in what amounts to a new, Zoeite-based growth and the laws of human morality have become inextricably intermeshed. What will become of the old universe, still dominated by the evil, power-hungry Administrators, lording it over their subhuman slaves? In the deadly struggle between Old and New, which will be the victor? Brian Griffin keeps you guessing to the end, eventually reaching a violent climax in which the representatives of a new universe fight it out with the ageless Administrators -- to the death."