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In the 21st century described by John Brunner, network surveillance is everywhere, controlling people's food, clothing, housing and transportation. Dangerous criminal Nick Haflinger dodges between multiple identities, but in the end he never escapes the fate of being arrested. Faced with the severe punishment of having his brain reset, he creates a weapon that changes the world. His invention not only shook the conglomerate giants in the book, but also cast a shadow forever on our real world.

With multiple characters, multiple angles, and taking into account both macro and micro, it panoramically displays a gloomy near-future world - population explosion, resource depletion, and the disintegration of traditional family and social relationships.