The year is 2007. Harry Wyckoff is a lawyer who is captured by the secret society called Wild Palms, a cabal made up of soulless fascists and virtual reality visionaries and led by the charismatic senator Anton "Tony" Kreutzer. Kreutzer dreams of controlling the will of his followers (the "New Realists") and the fate of the world with the help of drugs (mimezine), religion (the Synthiotics) and television. Harry Wyckoff must fight to keep his reason and plunges into a nebulous and kaleidoscopic nightmare: his fight can only lead to tragedy ... or transcendence. "A bullseye full of aggressive and unbridled creativity that elevates television's ability to tell stories to an unknown dimension." USA Today "Rich and suggestive ... just the names of the characters will one day be a subject for doctoral thesis. Wild Palms is fabulous." The Village Voice