Proteus Unbound: Charles Sheffield

Behrooz Wolf had lost his job, his lover and possibly his mind. Plagued by recurring hallucinations of a bizarre dancing man, he hooked himself up to a dream machine to escape. But there was no escape for the Solar System's leading expert on form-change. In the off-Earth habitats of the Outer System, form-change machines were malfunctioning at an increasing - and increasingly fatal - rate. Next thing he knew, Wolf was off-Earth, racing to solve the form-change problem, dodging anti-Earth rebels and hunting the Dancing Man. AS the pieces of puzzle fall into place, Wolf realises the unimaginable scope of what's going on. But even he never guessed the answer lay outside of the Universe itself. Cover art by Stephen Hickman.