Nicholas Bennington Flair is brilliant, damned and determined to make sense out of a senseless world he never made – a world where babies are born in test-tubes and those who are born naturally are known as obsos (obsoletes)…Almost all drugs are legal…the government sells marijuana…sex is called using and good sex is profitable. But Nicholas has one fatal flaw – he wants life to have charm as well as make sense – an archaic concept in the mechanised world of the Tomorrow File. Described as ‘a nightmare ride into the future’.