"An entertaining mix of fantasy, sci-fi, philosophy and mythology pictured with corrosive satire and told with a dead-pan humour. Joe Fernwright, an unemployed ceramic tinker in a plastic world, was in a dangerous try-anything mood. Ready even to accept an extremely chancy proposition from an extremely peculiar and powerful creature - a Glimmung. The Glimmung invites Joe to help raise an ancient cathedral from the sea-bed of a distant planet..." -- Book jacket.