An ordinary resident of America in the 1950s is abducted by humanoid creatures and transported to a city isolated from the rest of the world, living according to laws completely different from the laws of the civilized world. A boy who escaped from his father's cruelty travels with a traveling circus, which is fraught with many dangerous mysteries. A murder-obsessed bulldozer hunts people. The Earth's space fleet is trying to confront the greatest threat humanity has ever known...