Mike intends to continue in the quiet and peaceful life of a philosophy professor, but his friend, Ron, seems dead-set on rewriting the laws of physics. As Ron delves deeper into a hair-brained theory of his own, he discovers another world, invisible and intangible to us, but existing in the same space as our world. Ron persuades Mike to join him, and together they traverse the harsh conditions of an alien world locked in war."Reasoning has already been tried, and it failed," Tinear stated irately. "When speech is ineffective, when all other forms of communication are rendered null, when reason has been drowned by either delusion or resolve, then the force of war becomes the arbitrator."