He was Clear Blue Lou

perfect master of the Clear Blue Way, at one with the law of muscle, sun, wind and water governing Aquaria.

She was Sunshine Sue

always in a hurry in a world that was too slow, Queen of Word of Mouth.

Their meeting had been arranged - but by whom? and why?

Beyond the beginning of where the world ended

beyond the highest peaks of its primeval majesty, lay a radio active hell and the lairs of the black sorcerers, the Spacers.

The black scientists had not forgotten man's old dream of touching the stars: they wanted the Age of Space reborn. But they needed a little help.