Rarely does a first SF novel have as much energy and creativity as Scott's madcap, mischievously irreverent depiction of a definitely post-postmodem future.Consider this the opening salvo of one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years.

In this outrageously funny novel, one of the most outrageously inventive new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades dares to ask the dangerous question...

...that's what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It's all the thieves who stole his house left behind. If that weren't bad enough,a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias. Can his luck get any worse？

Jonny X will soon learn the answer when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses,Jonny discovers that getting his old life back means surviving a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. And he'll need exactly what he doesn't have: outrac eous fortune.