Back cover: The Council was concerned. The Earth experiment was in trouble. Of course, it had always been in trouble, more or less. Reptiles, along with Birds, had ruled the Earth for 150 million years but had been allowed to die out. Monkey people, the first intelligent species to occupy the Earth, had lasted five million years. Finally, the Human species had been promising, but it had a maddening capacity to do as much evil as good. Interventions from Angels, avatars, Hathors, and assorted drop-ins had been sent over the millennia to keep the balance. As linear time approached 2012 CE, the...