cover - The title is in white against a blue background of space featuring alien-looking <BR>spacecraft above a planet with large explosions apparent upon its surface.

1981. A peaceful summer's morning - until a mad physicist triggers off the bomb..

In the nuclear aftermath strange mutants evolve in a fragmented world. Only Dangerfield, the lost astronaut, endlessly orbiting the Earth with a million miles of tape, can see and hear the consequences.

And then one of the mutants decides to destroy the last link with the old world.

Philip K Dick