The Saurians are coming! No, claims Dr. Alistair Truepenny, professor of xenoarchaeology at Winston University, they are already here, and, what’s more, they have been among us for centuries, patiently manipulating us politically, economically, and socially. So says the Codex, an ancient text found by Truepenny in the ruins of an underground labyrinth on the distant world to which he has ventured by way of the wormhole that one day mysteriously opened in his office. The codex, Truepenny asserts, tells the story of a predatory species that, having abandoned their dying world, struck out aggressively across galaxies in search of other worlds to subjugate and other races to dominate. Together with his dashing alter ego Anselm, the cryptic exolinguist Clavdia, his graduate assistant and spiritual advisor Ganesh, and a supporting cast of zany characters, Truepenny, armed with his alarming knowledge, has determined to forewarn the world of the Saurian danger. But will the world take heed? Or are the Saurians—and his assorted assistants themselves—merely figments of Truepenny’s imagination?