Darkness reveals light.
The conviction that our current society is propelling us headlong into global ecological catastrophe is the motivating premise behind much of the late George Turner's science fiction. His talent as a writer was a cut above average and he never had any trouble delivering an evenly told and fluent story. Recovered from the traumatic events of the earlier novel, the two find themselves embroiled in an attempt to revive a noted artist who decades earlier became comatose while involved in the testing of a new form of high-tech electronic hypnosis. Suffice it to say that the remainder of the book is devoted to explaining that hypnotic experiment's pivotal significance to human destiny, and to fleshing out more details of the future New Age that forms the common setting of these novels. This future society is at heart a bucolic utopia comprised of peasant farmers.