A bizarre but incredibly entertaining political satire sci-fi. If you can parse non-chronological storytelling, you'll have a blast.

Don't recommend putting it down for too long and picking it up again later, though. Helps to read it in a short time period. ( )

This is a little known (outside of avid Science Fiction readers) and excellent book that pre-dates "The Matrix" by some number of years. Imagine "The Matrix" with Robin Williams, Carol Kane and Richard Pryor instead of Reeves, Moss and Fishburn and you have the beginnings of a clue as to what a wonderful time you will have reading this book.

Kandel started out translating Stanislaw Lem's books into English. Although only vaguely similar to Lem's writings, Kandel's books have the same degree of intelligence and wit. ( )