In a bustling newspaper city room, quick wit and cluttered expertise turn random trivia calls into a daily game, while the reporters' camaraderie keeps the office humming. That routine is jolted when a drunk reporter arrives with a strange, exhausted man who claims to be a refugee from another space-time continuum, just as columnist Kitty Kildare brings in a mystery of her own. What begins as newsroom banter soon becomes a comic science-fiction puzzle, with Jake, Sam, and Ed debating alternate universes and the logic of a world almost identical to theirs, except ten years ahead. The stranger, Martin Cantine, speaks with earnest urgency about crossing between continuums through unavoidable time travel and warns of Gerald Twombly, a future tyrant armed with truth serums and surveillance systems. Yet the staff, half fascinated and half skeptical, treats him like a crank and has him hauled away by interns. Their disbelief becomes the story's sharpest irony: in a world of reporters trained to spot the extraordinary, the most dangerous warning is dismissed because it sounds impossible. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.