'A tour de force of storytelling' The Times It is the twenty-fifth century. People have been reduced to Cerebromorphs - disembodied brains stored in tanks and wired to computers, passing from layer to layer, awaiting liberation at the top level as enlightened beings rehoused in new perfect bodies. But there is one brain that can out-think Central Intelligence. A brain that engineers a spectacular escape - with bizzare and tragic repercussions for its fellow Cerebromorphs. 'For sheer inventiveness, for impressionistic brilliance, and for splendid irony, this book must rank with the best speculative fiction of the twentieth century' The Sunday Times Winner of the Playboy fiction of the year award...