Time Out -

Scholastic ISBN 0439981220 (UK) 0439343542 (US)

"The best book I've EVER read. I mean all of the Outernet books are SOOOOOO good but this, whoa! It's by far the best! So on a scale of 1 to 10 I'd rate this book 1,000,000."

Jack, Merle, Loaf and their companions Googie and Bitz travel back in time to Vered II, homeworld of tree-dwelling computer genius Selenity Dreeb. However, Merle and Googie are plunged into a bewildering universe of alternate Earths and parallel realities.

And if Jack, Merle and Bitz are confused by their Friends' disappearance, they are even more confused when they return, accompanied by Loaf's alter-ego (as if Loaf didn't have enough ego to begin with). Even Janus is being less than helpful. A confrontation in N-Space leads to the Great Clock of Vered II and a desperate race to change the future -but in the multiple realities of the Trousers of Time, nothing is ever what it seems...

The 2Steves say...
"This book gave us our biggest plotting headache! We had to work out timelines and parallel realities and alternative settings - it took us ages. Finally we drew up a graphic chart to show how all the events could actually take place and work logically. Even our publishers had headaches trying to make sense of it all!"