Publisher's Synopsis
Set in America in the 21st century, this is a generation-spanning saga of the fight for power and survival after a nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island. One man must find the power to become the new ruler of a society where radiation has created human mutations and a death zone known as the Drift.;Michael Swanwick has also written "Vacuum Flowers", "Ginungagap", "The Feast of Saint Janis", "Mummer Kiss" and "The Man Who Met Picasso".