Dragons are the keepers of consciousness. They removed themselves from human consciousness roughly 5000 years ago, when people stopped looking to the sky and began looking to the Earth for answers to the fundamental questions. Dragons have maintained a presence in every culture on every continent, through legends, statues and effigies. When the People's Business Party start tearing down dragon symbols and replacing them with their logos, the dragons have no choice. Without their ubiquitous presence, humanity will drift even further from reality until ...

What could possibly be funny about two Tibetan boys climbing a mountain behind their village and finding a very strange object? Would any sane person laugh when the object turned out to be a time capsule created by an advanced civilisation over 300,000 years ago? And what about when the time capsule produces a hologram showing an enlightened society built on the principle of empowerment, a society which managed to destroy itself? How can anybody find it amusing when a heroin smuggling gang dispatches a deadly assassin to chase one of the boys and his rich ...