As you find out at the end, two brothers (with bad pun names - Dr. Know and Rex Monday), are born with strange abilities. World encompassing telepathy, and the reverse, and super genius level intelligence. So, one sets out to make things better, one eventually to stop him. Their incredibly powerful children, are, of course, horribly screwed up. A time travel mistake produce the title character, a man who has never been born, and is hence invisible and immaterial most of the time, except to this extraordinary family, or the occasional other sensitive. This, of course, can be used a superpower. It also makes him immune to the mental abilities of the two brothers. One of the super powered sibilings fancies him because of this, because he is one of the very few men her father cannot mind control, while, basically, he is shagging her.

Things spiral out of control, escalating into violence, and assassination.

In a twist, the end of the story encompasses areoforming, after the two megalomaniacs are out of the picture, Thanks to Nobody and their wife.

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