Daniel J. Walker

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he remembers in Chicago. His sister Eileen lives in their family home now with her sixteen year old son, Abe. Her older son Moo, the now missing nephew, helped spark Mort's return to his family. Three, four, five weeks pass as Mort waits outside his home and makes a tenuous re-entry into family life. Abe dreams of a sailboat and distant horizons. He saves money and sees an advertisement for the Kathy II. He and his friend calculate a way to buy the vessel from two unscrupulous rogues who make ends meet wholesaling liquor and operating a sometime boatyard.

Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.

　2095年、ニューヨーク。人間とミュータント、エイリアンがいびつに共存する混沌の世界。 ピラミッド型巨大飛行物体の突然の出現と時を同じくして、街では人体改造を施した人間だけが犠牲となる連続猟奇事件が発生、記憶喪失の美少女ジルが治安部隊に保護される。彼女の身柄を引き取った女医エルマ・ターナー博士は、彼女の体構造が人間とはかけ離れたものであると発見する。 　またその頃、30年前に政治犯として捕らえられていた男、革命の思想的リーダー・ニコポルが、事故により冷凍保存から蘇る。一方ピラミッドの中では、鷹の頭にヒトの体を持つ神ホルスが、反逆罪で神々から死刑を宣告される。彼は残された7日間の猶予の間に、ある目的のためにヒトへと憑依し地上へ転生する。彼が選んだのは、ニコポルの体だった。 　ホルスによって引き合わされた2人は次第に惹かれ合い、孤独なジルはニコポルを通して愛とは何かを学んでいく。 　だが2人の知らない所で、彼らを追う別の勢力が動き始めていた……。