When truth and science collide. The Satellite People is a mosaic of interrelated characters living inside the surreal world of conspiracy and strange science, whose misperceptions of truth-as teachers, experimenters and students-are used as both a form of purification and as a weapon against the tyranny of the real world. Novelist Paris Tosen effectively pits one person's truth against another person's reality and the perception of truth is cross-examined alongside the avoidance of it.