From the introduction:
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman!
As long as he’s been around, it was the Superman Movies that played a crucial role in driving him into the public consciousness. And of course, they started the modern Superhero Movie genre as a side effect. That’s the world you’re going to now, Jumper.
You know the story, of course. A Long time ago, a planet full of incredibly advanced beings was destroyed, leaving behind none but one young boy, coursing through the cosmos on his journey across several galaxies, until he reached a planet third from the sun.
This is a world of zany Real Estate scams, weird mind-affecting versions of Kryptonite, love and hate, the importance of humility, time travel through… questionable means… but mostly zany Real Estate scams.