Bart Davidson is a secret curmudgeon, a college professor of a politically correct age who must put aside his academic standards and cultural sensibilities to appease the lowest common denominator. When that denominator divides Bart from his body, he embarks upon an odyssey of haunting self- discovery. Bart's brain is preserved in the interest of science, along with two others, so that scientists of some more capable future might develop the means of reviving them, and at least recover their information. The Consultant is the weirdly allegorical tale of three damaged brains and the desperate people who seek to open a hopeful dialogue with the victims and last survivors of a rapidly degenerating society.