Simon and Brad's fireball adventures take them to ancient China where they are exposed to incredible practices of mind control.
Encountering a fireball which turns out to be a crossing point between their world and another one on a different probability track, two boys, one English and one American, face Indians, Vikings and Aztecs in their attempts to reach California. Sequel of Fireball.
Two boys are drawn by a fireball into a society, parallel to 20th-century England, which has many of the characteristics of Roman Britain. John Christopher is the pseudonym of Samuel Youd.