The Last Man Beyond Time

Book Summary

By the time the world's automated surveillance systems recorded this impossible event, not a single person remained on Earth who could explain what had actually happened. No one—except Alex Walker. He awoke in a chamber located nearly eight hundred meters beneath the Earth's surface. Modern scientific instruments surrounded him. Countless numbers glimmered across the walls. On a massive screen, data relating to time, energy, and space flickered before his eyes, their meaning beyond even his own complete understanding. He remembered his name. He remembered his past, too—but not the sequence of events that had brought him to this place. Then a message appeared on the screen— “You were never supposed to be here.” A few moments later, a voice echoed inside him. It was not coming from any external device. He could hear it directly within his own mind. But the most terrifying thing was not that someone was trying to communicate with him. The most terrifying thing was that, according to the records of the underground laboratory, Alex Walker had died three days earlier. How was he alive? Where had humanity gone? As he searched for answers to these questions, he was about to draw closer to a mystery in which the established laws of science would begin to prove inadequate. Time would cease to be merely a passing stretch of existence and become a boundary of its own—a boundary whose cost of crossing was beyond anyone's ability to predict.