350 pages of exciting, fast paced realism with action, mystic's, dolphins, romance, surfers and all within a conservation theme. This is really a grand adventure. A great read, Sci Fi/ Fantasy at its best. Hanna and his crew mates are caught in an ion plume of a terra forming storm on the surface of the planet mars. Crash landing on a seemingly pristine and primitive world, they soon find that things are not what they seem. Their arrival has upset a delicate balance that has been in place for hundreds of thousands of years. They have unwittingly set into motion a series of events that will change the future of all mankind forever and now that the ancient prophecies of 'The Fifth Book of Sheringa' are now in play, they must face the realities of... 'The Paradigm of Time.'