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As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man. When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns.

The story describes time and space travel by mind transfer. The premise is that a person in a given place and time can switch bodies with someone who is elsewhere or elsewhen. Other writers have re-used this concept in later works, such as drinking tea from Red Forest leaves in the television series 12 Monkeys and long-range communication stones in the Stargate SG-1 television series. As with other Lovecraftian works, this story features otherworldy alien beings that are not simply variations on humans or other familiar terrestrial animals.

Chris Hooper sonhava com monstros quando criança, mas encontrou apenas escuridão e isolamento no espaço. Até o dia em que ele e seus colegas mineradores descobriram trimonita (o material mais resistente do universo) em um inferno arenoso e devastado conhecido como planetoide LV178. Após um módulo colidir com a nave mineradora Marion, os mineradores descobrem que havia mais do que trimonita nas cavernas profundas. Havia algo maligno hibernando e aguardado a sua presa.