Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harrassed Earth? Sprung illegally from Dr. Poynter’s fertile imagination and sterile test tubes, nurtured separately by the current working class of intelligent apes, Alvin, Bruce, Colin & Desmond – alike as podded peas – are blissfully unaware of each other’s existence till some very weird events begin to occur. Such as – Alvin claims to have remembrances of things yet to come. One of those things is a gorgeous green-eyed girl. Not to mention the psychic and teleportational talents the four develop when together, which understandably threaten and alarm the Omniscient Authorities. And there’s the havoc they play on this tightly tuned society when they decide to give the bureaucracy just a taste of their awesome powers. Cover art by John Higgins.