Enter a world where scientists are superstars and gene-hackers unleash Our Neural Chernobyl, creating drooling geniuses, TV-drugged cats and gangs of raccoon toughs.

A rock star becomes the voice of the people in a crumbling America... and the ultimate threat to the world's newest superpower in We See Things Differently.

Politically correct smugglers match wits and high-tech toys with religious fanatics in "Are You for 86?

In Jim and Irene, two lost souls - a phone-phreak drifter and a hopeless Russian émigré - drive off the edge of the world... and find connection at last.

And history does a freeze-frame and reverse on the deaths of two hip-culture burnout cases in Dori Bangs.

Globalhead brings you thirteen short stories from the author of Heavy Weather and the co-author of The Difference Engine.