John Boyd is back to Delight readers of his superb first novel. This is the best anti-utopia the strongest satire on Trends in our present culture. The puns, the almost not quite quotations the thinly veiled references to our real world all this it belongs at the top along with the brave new world. Dr Freda karen, blonde and beautiful has waited in vain for her fiance to disembark from Project Abel's recently returned starship. But Paul had unaccountable requested and extended Tour of Duty on the planet of flowers and in his Steed he had sent an assistant how with a verbal message and it quizletly iridescent yellow tulip that not only had a plastic memory but could talk. Free to assume realized the must unlock the secrets of the flower planet and it's strange hold on paul, though how. How's lack of methodology and unscientific irreverence constantly confuse Frida and they battled one another the ultra rational World of Tomorrow they inhabit and ultimately the strange sentient on Earthly flower playing at Frida Journeys to explore. The climate so the shocking and oddly beautiful novel is bizarre and delightful.