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.

Star Trek The Next Generation

Philip K Dick