Glimmering - Elizabeth Hand

An audacious exploration of the violent margins and decadent centre of a world giving birth to a new millennium. Will it be still-born or new-born?

It is 1999. The Last Days say some; The First, claim others. The climate is warming, the evening skies are awash with dreamy, multi-coloured lights, and underground cults are preparing for the frenzy of all frenzies - The Night of the Thousand Years.

Jack Finnegan, the world's last literary publisher, is dying of AIDS; Trip Marlowe, VR rock star, is dying from too many mind-expanding excursions courtesy of IZE; and Leonard Thrope is coming to town with his wonderful life-restoring elixir.

Trippy sex, new age revivals and the hottest hallucinogens the imagination can buy - it must be the time of the Glimmering.