Unexpected and the protagonist of the novel. This is by no means another "space wolf," but a typical American man in the street, carried by accident millions of years into the future, to a cold dying Earth. In the life of Middletown, a provincial town of the American Midwest, the real "end of the world" has come. People at once lost the civilized world of the middle of the 20th century, most of their relatives and friends, and indeed all of humanity...