Along with progess in other spheres, criminology and remedial treatment for the socially unacceptable will undoubtedly make rapid strides in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third centuries.

Purely retributive justice is not a satisfactory answer to the enlightened Welfare Officer of the Future. Psychiatry, criminology and electronic mind control could combine into an entirely new concept of reclamation. In the right hands this would be an advance into something close to Utopia - in the wrong hands it would leave 1984 looking like a pleasant week-end in the country.

This thoughtful new novel is a daring attempt to handle the delicate theme of advanced criminology and the unresolved conflict of Society versus those who will not or cannot conform. Try as they will to be impersonal and humane, the psychiatrists of the future - even with electronic aids - will be as human as we are today. Their problems will be ours....

This story is a challenge to the mature reader who cares about the future of humanity....

Dakos was an alien humanoid who hated earth; he detested the planet; its people were anathema to him. He loathed its cities; its countryside was an abomination to him. He lived for one thing only...the destruction of the would which had rejected him.

Dakos was no mean enemy. His hatred was allied to a brilliant mind and a very superior technology. He was a man of action...highly destructive action!

Security agents Blanthus and Croberg were after him, but Dakos covered his tracks with all the cunning of a diabolically clever homicidal maniac.

He could so easily pass as a terrestrial humanoid. ...Are you sure that man sitting beside you in the bus isn't the alien? What's in that case?

His clothes? His lunch? His business documents? Or an alien bomb?

This is the story of a world reeling from a war of nerves with a sinister, secret enemy.

Mike Sterne was a man with problems. His environment included an unknown quantity in the form of an eccentric alien scientist and a determined corps of totalitarian militia with orders to liquidate him.

A rigidly imposed authoritarian social structure can only be undermined by a superior ideology. Sterne encountered that ideology on the other side of an electronic gateway throught the X dimensions, a gateway to the infinite universe of the microcosm and the macrocosm.

His enemies also discovered a route through the continuum...but they didn't reach the same world that Sterne had found.

This is a scientifically authentic novel dealing with the sophisticated problem of the conflict of men and the conflict of ideals against a compellingly real futuristic background.