When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chronosynclasticinfundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when hiswaveforms int... » 

When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chronosynclasticinfundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when hiswaveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result he only gets hometo Newport Rhode Island once every fiftynine days and then only for an hour.But at least as a consolation he now knows everything that has ever happenedand everything that ever will be. He knows for instance that his wife isgoing to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant the richest man in the world. Healso knows that on Titan one of Saturns moons is an alien from theplanet Tralfamadore who has been waiting 200000 years for a spare part forhis grounded spacecraft... «