'A triumph of soaring imagination and huge detail. The science fiction novel of the year' DAILY MAIL

One of Jupiter's moons suddenly disappears, and shortly after, a mysterious mound - a disguised spaceship - is found in the Californian desert. Alan Gordon, science advisor to the President feels something terrible is going to happen.

The award winning tale of the inevitable take-over of our society by a benign, intelligent scientific experiment gone awry.