The Other Side of Magik

There is an alternative to the universe we know and understand: a very close and similar alternative that is almost exactly the same, almost normal and familiar--except for some minor deviations. History there took a slightly different path ... the DNA spiral is left-handed ... electricity doesn't work ... and magik does. In a world of steam-buggies and airships, windmills and gas-lamps, magik is the science that binds the fabric of society. A science that could offer a great future for its students--like seventeen year-old Garreth Royal. Unfortunately, Garreth has failed first year at the College of Mages and his future is bleak. Worse--there is a senior wizard, one Theolonia Crabbe, who has dark designs on Garreth. Theolonia carries within her mind the soul of her dead twin brother, Horatio, and Horatio needs a body to inhabit to fulfill his destiny. Horatio is a mandrake--a cold and fell necromancer of the worst aspect. But it's not exactly Garreth's body the wizard wants, but his opposite number in the mythical parallel universe--ours--that place where strange forces are at work and magik isn't. And the ancient and proscribed Book of Null tells how to swap them over