For Titus and his friends it started out like any ordinary trip to the moona chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet a beautiful brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell Anthony Burgess and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson creates a not-so-brave new worldand a smart savage satire ushering us into an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.