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Philip K. Dicks story about a common tinkerer, Thomas Cole, who gets transported into the future. There, he is dismissed and condemned by a power-mad tyrant looking to balance the equation for interstellar war. But, just because the tyrant is too arrogant to see the value of Cole as a person let alone a handyman doesn't mean Cole won't have the most profound effect on the entire galaxy. Hunted down on earth yet Cole does have allies. People that recognize the most incredible ability to do things that not even the greatest minds of the future can accomplish. The fate of humanity is in that simple working man's hands.