It's the End of the World as we know it. Edison Hawthorne is about to be vaporised in a hail of reality-fracturing missiles launched by a mysterious alien known only as The Entity. Edison's one chance of survival lies in a large, hi-tech egg built by his mother, an inventor whose name is a by-word for cowardice. The egg does its job. Edison survives the destruction of his city. But when he wakes up an unknown length of time later, Edison discovers that the world he has hatched into has gone utterly, completely and totally insane. Humanity has been bombed back to the Stone Age. People are...