Young Guilford Law leaves an America ruled by religious fundamentalists and travels to Darwinia--the land that was Europe before being transformed by the Miracle in 1912--where he learns the truth about man's destiny in the universe.

In the year 2015 in an alternate reality, eighteen-year-old Cassie Iverson shares a dangerous secret with a small group of people. She knows that the peace and prosperity her United States has enjoyed since the Great Armistice of 1914 has been engineered by an extraterrestrial entity that has been farming humans for unknown purposes. The members of this group have worked hard not to draw attention to themselves, but it no longer matters because the...

"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...

"One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives." "The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk - a heat source, rather than an astronomical object....