In a razor-edged near-future where publicity has become its own form of power, Tom Blacker's career begins with a stunt so outrageous it lights up the sky: a movie star's face and singing voice projected across the heavens. The spectacle wins attention, then outrage, and Tom is swiftly condemned by his boss and the police commissioner, losing his job and stumbling into a night of drunken chaos. That collapse sends him into the orbit of Livia Cord, a beautiful, unsettling woman who rescues him from jail and introduces him to Homelovers, Incorporated. At Homelovers, Tom is hired by the polished John Andrusco to mount a campaign against space travel, since a mass exodus from Earth would threaten the real estate interests behind the company. Tom eagerly builds anti-space propaganda through fear, religion, economics, and entertainment, even as the campaign grows darker. When he uncovers the grotesque "mutant baby" story used to discredit a spaceman, he is shaken by the death that follows and by the realization that the lie is more sinister than he imagined. His search for the truth leads back to Livia and Andrusco, where the final revelation exposes a web of deception, exploitation, and commercial corruption at the heart of this satirical science-fiction world. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.