It started out as something novel; a company of scientists and their wives living in the prototype of the society of the future, a society governed by a huge cybernetic unit. New Society, on the remote Yorkshire moors was an environment in which leisure took top place. If you wanted to pour a drink, bath the baby or even drive your car, you sat back and allowed "Aunt Edie", the great man-made brain, to do it for you through her multitudinous extensions.

And it worked... up to a point. When that point was reached and crossed, life in New Society became a full-scale struggle for survival against a macabre enemy, a cunning adversary which turned the New Society experiment into a nightmare. For this was the clash between man and his own scientific ingenuity. In this unusual science-fiction novel A. A. Glynn tells of the attempt of a few men and women, for whom time was fast running out, to ward off a violent menace and halt a frightening plan for conquest.

The engines died first, then the ship. Hope died. Men lived on. Then men died one by one... accidents... quarrels... illness... age. One man remained. One man sat in the quietness of the drifting ship and wondered why Death didn't want him.

The Others found the incredible derelict and approached her cautiously. The last spaceman watched them come and went to greet them. He was too old and tired to have any emotions left. Then they went to work on him. One by one his feelings came to life again. He took an interest in the New World on which he found himself. There was something strangely worrying about the planet. Things looked vaguely reminiscent of other things from long ago... A mountain range reminded him of Earth. A vast stretch of water looked like an ocean he had once crossed. Could the impossible have happened? 

Could the incredible be reality... ?