"Taut writing, interesting characters, fascinating situations, Magic Time takes up where
[Stephen King's] The Stand leaves off."Harry Turtledove

"Sheer entertainment, this book is a rousing success."Booklist

"Marc Zicree is a superb writer."Ray Bradbury

"One of the most interesting and promising new fantasy series to come along."Orlando Sentinel

When an overworked team of government physicists unwittingly invites something catastrophic into the world,
rising young New York lawyer Cal Griffin is forced into a strange new role in a world of nightmare and wonder.
A spinster schoolteacher, a lonely miner, a refugee doctor, a visionary street person, and a brooding Secret
Service agent all share a staggering responsibility with the young attorney to make sense of the surreal chaos
and to follow an awesome destiny, for they are to be soldiers in a titanic battle between darkness and light.
And its raging hell fires will affect the most astonishing transformation of allturning a young man of pure heart
into that rarest of creatures: a hero.

Marc Scott Zicree has created classic episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon Five, Sliders, and others and is the author of the best-selling Twilight Zone Companion. He lives with his wife in West Hollywood. Barbara Hambly is the New York Times best-selling author of many fantasy and science-fiction titles, including shared-universe novels for Star Wars and Star Trek. She makes her home in Los Angeles.

Armin Shimerman is familiar to science-fiction fans as Quark on Star Trek: DS-9 and Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.