Galen Stoller was in many respects an all-American kid. He liked going to theme parks and movies, visiting his grandparents, hamming it up at school, and hanging out with his friends. Steeped in the world of sci-fi/fantasy, he read the complete Harry Potter series, the Golden Compass/Dark Material series, and the Bartimaeus Trilogy. He also read the C.S. Lewis Narnia series over and over, except for the last book, in which all the protagonists were killed in a train accident a volume he read once and never wanted to return to. It was a train accident that would take Galen s earth life when he