From the author of Lockdown comes this quick-paced satire of modern politics and information which considers the nature of power, truth, love . . . and pie. In a secret lab are a tube, a machine, a lever and an enormous pie! Scientists, led by the godlike Dr. Essence, create life. Down the tube comes a Dam. Left to himself, Dam pulls the lever and from the tube come person after person until the lab is full. At first, they share the pie and are happy. But one of them, Bask, slyly gains control and turns them against each other.