In this world every human desire or need is provided for by machine. The world seems to be a vast utopia, free from war and want. But there remains a price. All animals have vanished and all creative activity has ceased. One journalist is out to discover why. Where have all the artists gone? Welcome to the end of the world.

Open a body ... Open the organs ... Open the cells ... Open the DNA ... Open the molecules ... Open the atoms ... Open the protons, neutrons, and electrons and you find sub-atomic structures that do very strange things If you are a stranger, it isn't polite to worry at someone's nethers. This is where a lot of dogs get in trouble. Crow and Coyote bartered over the thorny throne of Death. Crow won. Crow was a god. Crow was no god.