A small step for Man, a giant leap for Mankind's destruction. Moon 2090 After a war between Earth and the lunar colonies, the Moon will explode into thousand pieces, which will form the Silver Belt, shining in Earth's sky in the following centuries. New Athens 3613 AD One night In-Shar Bedrosen got drunk and wrote a story about the girl he loved in his youth, which wouldn't be a big deal if he were a member of the Bureaucrat Caste, but as a member of the intentionally illiterate Worker Caste, there will be consequences if people find out - and they always find out. When he's brought before Governor Hadraar, it's clear the man has something specific in mind for this creative dissident. Texas 1969 AD Pete Kamen, an aeronautics engineer with NASA when they're putting man on the moon, wakes up from a strange dream about having been a prisoner in a futuristic and oppressive regime - a dream that proves hard to shake at first. Months later, a man appears that brings the strange and confusing dream back with a vengeance. Was he really dreaming?