Going after his tribe, the child arrives in time to prevent the warriors from being massacred by predators whose territory the clan had entered. His life is then turned upside down by the sudden adoration that his savior status earns him: As the new leader, he decides to lead his dying tribe to Niourk, the mythical City of the Gods, where all that remains...

Unlike any other until his magnetic collar connects him to the waves of his little mistress's learning helmet, opening doors to what no Om before him has experienced: knowledge… First, the language of the Draags, then their history, which includes the history of his own kind… When Terr understands that Oms were captured long ago on a far away planet, he...

Jolt and Massir discover that during the crash their vessel was seized by a monstrous sea creature. A genious geneticist, Jolt proposes a wild plan: cause the beast to mutate and force it to surface. But if the experiment works, what will the two men find on dry land? Who will hear their distress signal, and when?