Zaxony has an odd condition: every time he falls asleep, he transports to another world in the multiverse. Since this mysteriously started happening, he's been to more than 1000 worlds, and never, to his knowledge, the same one twice. He can take someone with him, so long as they're holding onto one another when they doze off, so over the course of time, he's had a handful of companions along for the ride, at least until they got tired of the lifestyle. One of these companions is a mad scientist bent on multiverse domination called The Proctor, who has figured out how to use Zax's blood to harness those abilities, but is only able to travel on the same path as Zax, with no steering toward other places. But how can Zax defeat The Proctor's mad schemes when he's never able to stay somewhere long enough?
Pratt is very imaginative, and creates these very cool, very weird worlds in the space of a few sentences. But let's face it, there's a better kindness-powered companion-bringing world-hopper in science fiction already, and that's Doctor Who. This would be a great book if Doctor Who hadn't been on the air for more than half a century, but unfortunately for Tim Pratt, the Doctor has been fighting off megalomaniacs like The Master The Proctor for years.
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