In Pearlman's novel of Swiftian bite and humor, the world is run by global amnesiacs, the brain-damaged lording it over the mentally sound.? The president of Memini, the greatest of the all-powerful megacorporations ("conglobulates") believes that he is still only a high-school senior--and that he is living inside a videogame that he must outwit in order to graduate.? Meminet, the venerable computer personality that manages the managers of Memini, must race to keep its unhinged president from triggering the meltdown of Antarctica and thus destroying civilization.