By Ed McBain—originally published under his alternate pseudonym Hunt Collins—is a vintage dystopian science fiction novel and social satire. 

While McBain (the pen name of author Evan Hunter) is legendary for inventing the modern police procedural with his 87th Precinct series, this standalone novel dives into speculative fiction.

The plot takes place in a future society completely obsessed with escapism, hedonism, and substance-induced reality distortion.