Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly and quite possibly mad, but he really can see ex
actly one year into the future. And this talent means that in a very short time
he rises from being a disgruntled carnival fortune-teller to convulse an entire
planet. For Jones becomes a demagogue, whipping up the ideal-starved population
into a frenzy against the threat of the 'drifters', enormous single-cell protopl
asms that may be landing on Earth soon.
But, in a world of engineered mutants
, hermaphrodite sex performers in drug-fuelled nightclubs, Jones is a tragic mes
siah. His limited precognition renders him helpless because he cannot bring hims
elf to fight against what he knows will happen ...
