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An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend. “An utterly original take on Arthurian myth.”—The Times A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...

My name is Alice Long, and I've always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships 30,000 kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves. It all seemed perfectly natural at the time.

Ark for a Perilous Time is a tale of a school rooted in ancient mystery traditions and The Fourth Way of G. I. Gurdjieff (G). A teaching is placed in the hands of a future generation to protect humanity at large. An advanced society faces collapse from the inside, but by saving itself, it may save the outside world as well. The story within has been crafted as science fiction and blended with ideas from G's most well-known student, P.D. Ouspensky and is reminiscent of G's own "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson."