The Pure Cold Light

The satiric Nebula Award nominated novel of an alternate Philadelphia – where the indigent are disappearing into another dimension courtesy of a drug called Orbitol, public school teachers lead classes while armed and masked, and an investigative journalist named Thomasina Lyle is about to bring down a government headed by a dimwitted president with his own late night talk show.

"Relentlessly cynical... far out even by science-fiction standards." — Philadelphia Inquirer