Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly depicted as a partly criminal, partly countercultural figure in a future Los Angeles.

Schuyler, a sprinter, one who outruns government particle beam satellites to deliver computer chips to the European black market, becomes a media celebrity and the icon of a new religious cult.

R.D. Legger arrives in a future Los Angeles devastated by the Fear and finds himself at the mercy of a bizzare group of outcasts who possess psionic powers