Marooned by a faulty time-machine back at the Earth's beginning, Jherek Carnelian and Amelia Underwood seem set at last to consummate their love in a Palaeozoic Eden. Until, rescued by passing time-travellers, they are whisked once more to the End of Time - and a dying universe.

Facing oblivion with them are the relentless Inspector Springer and his band of Victorian constables, still determined to apprehend all suspects; the Lat, eternal juvenile delinquents, blaspheming, raping and pillaging to the last; Mr Underwood, firmly convinced he has been kidnapped to Hell; and the decadent, pleasure-seeking inhabitants of the End of Time. including the ever-energetic, Machiavellian Lord Jagged, the master-magician who, is an dazzling cosmic finale, reveals all...