The fantastic works of Lawrence James, published mainly in England, brought him success both in Europe and in the USA. The action of the novel "The Earth Slumbers" takes place as if in two dimensions - messengers from other civilizations find themselves on Earth, which, after nuclear and neutron wars, has returned to the era of feudalism. Cruel rulers oppress people, turning them into slaves. The heroes of the novel, Commander Simon Rusk and his friend Lieutenant Bogart - from the Galactic Security Service - face a problem: how legitimate is their intervention in the course of human history? The same characters act in the novel "New Paradise". Now they are concerned about something else: how to wrest from the hands of the adventurer Harley Corman the wonderful invention he stole, which allows a person to freely and instantly move in time and space, making him, in fact, God! An adventurous plot with elements of detective investigation and mysticism makes reading the novel an exciting experience.