The first in a series of seven stand alone fantasy adventures, Jimmy was the alien who chose to live on Earth after his Intergalactic ambassador parents died when they were overtaken by Earth’s coughs and colds. He was left in the care of a kindly ‘Aunt’ Ethel. Endowed with a bright red mop of unruly hair, big blue eyes, a small snub nose, pointed ears and enormous feet, the neighbourhood children ridiculed Jimmy, until he decided to run away to find a place where he could fit in. In his midnight flight through the forest, he stumbled into the underground world of Roombelow. He rescued the town from the sleeping spell Matilda the Witch cast and was ‘adopted’ by Mr McDonald, the Mayor.

Matilda and Gemma, the little lady who lives at the bottom of the well but doesn’t know how she got there, become Jimmy’s close friends.

When rain threatened a flood, Jimmy located the sleeping Weather Man (aka Lord Oron), who turned off the rain.

When the well dried up, Jimmy and Gemma discover that a giant eel has blocked the spring that feeds the well. They show Olsen how to get back to his home in the sea.

Aunt Ethel explains that a starship hidden in the forest could take Jimmy to his home planet, but he chose to stay in Roombelow.

Jimmy saves Roombelow from several threats before he decides to visit his birthplace, the star world Attalia, and the hidden starship is reactivated, heading homeward through the stars, guided by XRU, the onboard AI navigator.

The Attalians face interplanetary warfare from renegade Kursch. Jimmy devised a plan to close the time warp linking Attalia to Ock. The destruction of the warp marooned Kursh in nether space, and once peace is assured, Jimmy returns to his family of friends in Roombelow, where he is loved and needed.