Brian Dorgu is just seven years old when he appears on the evening news for the first time. It is not every seven year-old who tries to buy a rod of plutonium for the flying saucer he has been building in the shed - not every seven year-old who triggers a Hazmat response involving five governments. The dark suited men who arrive later have questions like: where does a kid get twenty-five million dollars, and what does he know about gravitic propulsion?
That is before Brian employs a flamenco-singing surgeon to install the bionic implants that will allow him to converse with himself in the future and past - before he enrols himself into a girl's school, then decides to become a girl and a Moslem, just to find out what it is like to think differently.
Now he has returned to Earth after thirteen years in the dwarf planet Ceres, and the men in dark suits are back with more questions.
"Get your intertemporal passports in order, otherwise Adam Mathews might leave you behind" - Gloria Furtwangler
