English prof Schuyler King receives a call from his computer genius friend Grant Barrington and becomes an "earwitness" to a friend's murder. King finds himself thrust into an epic journey to track down Barrington's murderer - Lloyd "Merlin" Jones - the self-proclaimed ruler of the MagicNet - a mysterious blend of magic and technology. The barely computer literate King must re-program our mundane universe before Merlin can erase our very existance.