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Warning: Spoilers follow
Brunner in a lighter mode than one expects of him. The original cover copy said, "He summoned the monsters of the past to help him rule the world." Actually, protagonist Harold Freitas III is merely looking for a publicity triumph, and the "monsters" are his own ancestors, brought forward to 2066 by a newly invented magic device. The ancestors have some difficulties, amusingly described, in adjusting to 21st-century mores. Freitas and his sentient computer SPARCI save the day.