Three stories in one collection. In "Buying Time" Quin gets the incredible offer to buy the world's most precious commodity - Time. But can he afford the price? Also included are "Forgotten Songs of Avalain," a story about the tragic downfall of the Lethe, once the most gifted and beautiful creatures of Earth, and "The Lonely Levite," where the last man alive, along with a world-controlling supercomputer struggle to restore a near-extinct humanity.