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The Pocket and the Pendant' weaves together a 'delightfully odd' blend of ancient Sumerian artifacts and legends, UFO's, a curiousrogue planet in our own solar system, 'magic' Books which operatethrough consciousness and quantum mechanical principles, and a bizarresub-time called 'The Pocket'.

Focusing on a boy named Max Quick, who may be far older than he seemsand not quite human, the story begins with Time mysteriously stoppingduring an eclipse - except for Max and several other children. As theyresolve to discover how and why this has occurred, the novel followstheir twisting and turning adventures across the landscape of atime-frozen United States. Strange UFO-like objects now riddle theskies; they discover odd Books which exhibit quantum mechanicalreality-bending properties. When they finally discover the answer tothe riddle of how why the Pocket has occurred, they find that theirown true identities may not be what they thought they were, and theymust answer an ancient blood-feud going back to the beginning of time.