The summer of 1971 was unusually sunny for London. It was also scientifically fascinating: Sunspots emitting a new type of solar radiation suddenly appeared.

Then, unaccountably, there began a sharp rise in the suicide rate, and over the next ten years, the radiation-triggered impulse to self-destruction gradually eliminated all but the Transnormals—creative artists, eccentrics, psychopaths—those who had always lived on the fringe of organized society.

These survivors now found themselves in a depopulated world where civilization had dissolved and man had reverted to savagery.

Condition

very good

1 small weird printing crease on spine