Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time. - Fritz Leiber

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

In the wake of a Big Change, cultures and individuals are transposed, it’s true, yet in the main they continue much as they were, except for the usual scattering of unfortunate but statistically meaningless accidents.

But now the priests think only one thing. How to hold on to their power as long as mankind lasts—until the sun darkens and the earth freezes!