Sentient missiles, telepathic rabbits, consciousness-expanding machine and soul-catching nets: these are just a few of the elements Amen Darnay conjures up with his special blend of fantasy and technology—from the torture camps of the Third Reich to the corridors of contemporary Washington, D.C. and into a variety of possible futures where religious cults worship atomic wastes; where decent folk live in ordered harmony while Peacefreaks and other dangerous elements of society are sealed off and left to exterminate each other in the war for dwindling food rations; where Earth is the tourist center of the galaxy, even though it has nothing left to offer, nothing at all except—
Collection of three related novellas which first appeared in Galaxy Magazine: The Splendid Freedom ; The Eastcoast Confinement ; Plutonium .
Sentient missiles, telepathic rabbits, consciousness-expanding machine and soul-catching nets: these are just a few of the elements Amen Darnay conjures up with his special blend of fantasy and technology—from the torture camps of the Third Reich to the corridors of contemporary Washington, D.C. and into a variety of possible futures where religious cults worship atomic wastes; where decent folk live in ordered harmony while Peacefreaks and other dangerous elements of society are sealed off and left to exterminate each other in the war for dwindling food rations; where Earth is the tourist center of the galaxy, even though it has nothing left to offer, nothing at all except—
Collection of three related novellas which first appeared in Galaxy Magazine: The Splendid Freedom ; The Eastcoast Confinement ; Plutonium .