The Sirens of Titan

Summary: Malachi Constant is one of the richest and most morally corrupt men on Earth, and he has been invited to attend the materialization of Winston Niles Rumsfoord, another fabulously wealthy man who, as the result of accidentally entering some kind of time warp on a trip to space, materializes on Earth at predictable intervals and is able to see across time. After Rumsfoord tells Constant what his future holds, Constant tries desperately to avoid the fate that Rumsfoord has declared will be his. The rest of the story unfolds in a way that challenges the concept of free will while taking the reader across the galaxy to meet a cast of characters that includes humans, extraterrestrials, and robots alike.