Not unlike Lewis Carroll's young lady, Wayne Philips falls down a hole and enters a wonderland of machinery designed to safeguard the world from the possibility of becoming a lifeless lump of rock. The idea for this story came to me when I visited a lookout at Mt Archer near Rockhampton in Queensland I was told that if I released the hand-brake on my car it would slowly climb uphill and sure enough it happened. When I inquired if my informant knew the reason for this phenomenon I was informed vaguely that it was 'something in the ground'. I wrote the story to hopefully entertain those science fiction readers who are jaded with the idea that the main character has to be a super-hero with a super intellect.