In this alternate world story a young man is on a quest to fine his missing parents. The "earth" is flat and surrounded by ice. But there is an outside world that the insiders did not know about. Another major facet of the novel are time warps (not specifically time travel) but time loops do occur. Anteres meets a wide variety of interesting and sometimes threatening characters along the way. Does he find his parents? What is their story? ( )

Fast, fun, and best if you shelve your belief in reality while reading. The beginning reminded me vaguely of the Hitchhiker's Guide, but from then on, it was nonstop action through a nicely imagined world, peopled with a most unusual cast. Great fun for kids from ten to ninety-nine. ( )