Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future earth—an earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the pacific ocean roared. Here too there are whales to hunt—but whales that soar through a dark blue sky ... Hugo Award-winner Philip José Farmer has spun a fascinating tale of whaling ships and seamen of the sky in a bizarre future world where there are no seas to sail and no safe harbor to call home ...