CHAPTER 1It began when the class disappeared.
But that wasn’t the most frightening part of it. Things were further complicated by what appeared in its place. Something did appear. But Mike Strong, Assistant Professor of Logic at Kane University, wasn’t sure what it was. It was no lapse into temporary unconsciousness like a maiden with the vapors; nothing like that. All the bright eager young faces were there; then they were gone; along with all the bored uninterested young faces too, for that matter; and the seats and the desks and the classroom itself.
Gone—and in their place, a thing of contradictions and paradoxes—real and unreal; both vague and sharply outlined; frightening, but at the same time, strangely exhilarating.
The lapse was brief. At least it seemed so to Mike. The class w
