Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was writtenbetween Frank Herbert’s classics TheDragon in the ocean and Dune.

EMASI! Each Man ASeparate Individual! This is the rallying cry from the Seps, the resistanceforce involved in a class war against the top tiers of the society drivenentirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, receive plushapartments, comfortable careers, every possible convenience. But those that happento be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing severe lives and brutalconditions.

Daniel Movius, ex-senior liaitor, rides saturated in the opinionpolls-until he loses everything, brushed aside by an extremely powerful man.Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in thecity’s underworld. There, the opinion of the public is very clear: it really is period for arevolution against the corrupt superprivileged-and every trend needs aleader.