When Joyce becomes Frogmere Poet of the Year and wins a World Processor, she can't believe it isn't a typing error. But she soon finds it isn't. The Acme turns her fiction into reality in a way that terrifies her. Its instructions warn her that Undone is Not Possible in Totality, which she finds is true when an imaginary cat moves in, much to her son's delight. Her friends, an English teacher who studies the occult, and a Science teacher who covets Joyce's machine, persuade her to engage in the oldest scientific experiment of all. Can she prove alchemy is possible? And what might the implications for the future of the world be