The Big Time

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought you might be changing because of forces beyond your control? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War.

It's been going on for a billion years and it'll last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides—"Spiders" and "Snakes"—batle endlessly ...