In the foreseeable future, everything is different-but nothinghas changed.

“The Earth continues to be poisonedby pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed ofpower-hungry corporations. A delicate peace is usually threatened by landlessrevolutionaries, and global anarchy appears imminent.Yet an individual ray of hoperemains…”

Island The first is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its mostperfect creation-a man with a mind as advanced as any computer and a body freeof human being frailties. But David is a prisoner-a captive from the colony that createdhim-destined to spend the times of his lifestyle in an island-sized cylinder thatcircles a doomed and desperate home planet. A large number of kilometers below him, aworld trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in expectation of animpending apocalypse. And fate offers cast one extraordinary individual in the function ofsavior. For David Adams includes a plan-one that may eventually ensure thesalvation of his varieties … or its annihilation.