In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise...

Rev. ed. of: The unteleported man. 1964. Rev. ed. under title: Lies, Inc., originally published: London : Gollancz, 1984.