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Langley Powell died. Then, much to his surprise, he kept living. Sort of. And then he had to save the universe from erasure. Langley Powell was definitely the world’s most famous non-believer, a debunker of mysteries and exposer of hoaxes who lived a life of casual reason and lucrative celebrity. But then he died. Crushed by a falling piano. So it goes. Instead of immediately ceasing to exist in a vast expanse of nothing, as he’d expected, Langley found himself right back on Earth — but a different one. Aided by an extremely surly childlike guide, Langley goes to work for the network of the powerful elites that run whatever realm this is to stop his childhood hero’s mystical, magical mentor from resetting the entirety of existence. Along the way, there are secret decoder rings, rare foods, reborn rock stars, red herrings both literal and figurative, and blasts from the past and present, all terribly necessary to the mission of Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane.