If you could travel in time, would you kill baby Hitler? Not if you were horribly sane mad scientist Whitsuntide, who regards the prospect of temporal paradox as a diabolical hazard, and any mission into enemy or unknown territory with fear and abhorrence. But when you're employed by the A.E.I.O.U. (Arcane Experiments Imaginable Or Unimaginable) and there's a war on, damn it, you may not have the option of refusing. A riotous and blackly comic science fiction fantasy. A surreal dieselpunk espionage adventure. And a book!