"Thought-provoking, unquestionably, and Resnick's yarn-spinning is top-notch."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Parts of the book will make you mad, parts will make you sad, and parts will make you proud,
but none of the parts will bore you. If only one of Resnick's books will be remembered by history,
this will be the one."--Science Fiction Chronicle

"[D]isquieting and lyrical.extraordinary work."--Booklist

Written by one of science fiction's master storytellers, this collection of award-winning stories tells
the haunting and compelling tale of one man's utopia.

In twenty-second-century Kenya, polluted cities flank the once-sacred Mount Kirinyaga, replacing
the great animal herds of distant memory. But Koriba, an educated man of Kikuyu ancestry, knows
that life was different for his people centuries ago, and he is determined to recreate iton the
planetoid he proudly names Kirinyaga.

Reinstating the ancient customs and stringent laws of the Kikuyu people, Koriba leads the colonists
as their witch doctor. Only he, unbeknownst to his people, maintains the computer link to the rest of
humanity. But the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse from, ironically, humankind's insatiable
desire for knowledge.