Book description
Who can resist the Final Trip? Earth in the twenty-third century is
adorned with corpses as suicides ravage a dehumanised population,
compelled to live, or merely exist, in segregated complexes. Despite the
technical wizardry of the Church of the Epiphany and the dictates of the
unseen rulers, more and more people seek the ultimate exit. One man
probes the social disease, but he too fights that dreadful and permanent
seduction. If he succumbs, the victory of the Oppressors would be
complete Barry N. Malzberg (1939-) Barry N. Malzberg is an American
writer, editor and agent, whose prolific career has spanned numerous
genres - most notably crime and science fiction. Malzberg was
particularly active in the science fiction scene of the early seventies,
although he became disillusioned with the market forces defining the
field, and has rarely published SF works since. His most recent activity
in the field has been in the form of advice columns for writers in the
quarterly magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of
America. Barry N. Malzberg has been shortlisted for numerous awards,
including the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick.
