Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but
not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the
native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds--not from
villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a
universe together.
Now the task was to uproot these Gates, destroy their potency for
mischief, take horror out of the hands of the few who hungered for power
by misuse of the Gates.
This is the story of one such Gate and one such world.