[Sky Man on the Totem Pole?] combines mythological beliefs with the possibility of men coming from outer space and with modern theories about bioplasmic energy in an attempt to explain what might have happened in Temlaham, the Indian's Promised Land. The story's structure is confusingly episodic, weaving back and forth with changes of scene and points of view. An Indian community sees a falling star or comet; it turns out to be the spaceship Colonizer, directed to the planet Tlu's colony on Earth. After the Indians migrate to Temlaham, the narrative returns to the spaceship. It is aiming to save its doomed planet when data banks show the extermination of growing things to be imminent and Doomsday only 102 years away. Finally, after the spaceship's landing, the men from Tlu lead the Indians to regard scientific phenomena as manifestations of the spirit world. The conglomeration of ideas could provide...