Hailed by THE BRAND NEW York Occasions as “a convincing dystopian look at paranoia from one of the very most exclusive and perceptive writers of our time period,” this short, captivating novel offers a cautionary tale.

The book takes place at some unspecified future time when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur in any way) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for instance, the use of the word “I” is certainly punishable by death). That is a book upholding Rand’s central principles of her philosophy and of her heroes: reason, ideals, volition, individualism.