Jay Corcoran and Tom Boone are trying to track down a missing client when the building they
are in is demolished and the two of them jump into a time machine that takes them to one of
the pockets of rebels from the far future who are resisting the decorporealization of man.
Horace, the hardheaded, practical lout, the organizer, the schemer. Emma, the moaner, the
keeper of our consciences. Timothy, the student. Enid, the thinker. And I, the loafer,
the bad example, the one who makes the others feel virtuous.