The Twilights Last Gleaming is a story about the destructive effects that hate and lies can have on a society. The story alternates between three venues: the rise of a vicious leader on a faraway planet, the efforts of a brave group of scientists to use a spaceship to escape the hate-filled planet, and the future fight to rid the spaceship of hate by the pioneers in space searching for a new planet to call home. Part science fiction and part political thriller, The Twilights Last Gleaming is a dystopian study of what might happen if hatred and lies are left unchecked.