Jason Kerrigan and Brownwyn Dalmouth are pilots with the Republic of Texas Army Air Corps in 1947. A world war is going on and bombs have just brought an end to Crockett Air Field in south Texas where they both served. Jason and Bronwyn, though, are called away from the battle to be test pilots for a new aircraft that--they're told--will bring the war to an end. The experimental craft lives up to expectations in early tests, but then it lands them somewhere it never should have sent them: 5000 years in the future, to a desolate land bereft of human life. When they get back to 1947, they find the war over and the Republic gone. Somehow, they've taken a trip to the future and changed the past.
