On May 4, 1999, at precisely noon, the sun goes dark. Not eclipsed, not dimmed, extinguished, plunging the world into an instant freeze. Melvin Dane has nineteen years of dreams about a green-skinned girl he's never met, and now, with catastrophe descending, he must follow a scientific trail through an ocean that hides something impossible: a luminous underwater world, a dimension of bizarre life forms, and Xenora, the Green Girl herself, waiting in the depths. Dr. Samuel Walden, Mel's guardian, has been working in secret on a solution to the alien menace consuming their world, but the key to survival might not be science at all, it might be a dream he can't explain and a girl who shouldn't exist. This is classic pulp science fiction at its most inventive, where cosmic horror meets fever-dream fantasy and a young man must choose between the world he knows and a reality he was always meant to find. Williamson writes with genuine wonder about the boundaries between mind and universe, between the known and the unknowable. For readers who want their science fiction with atmosphere, adventure, and a streak of the supernatural.
