Lee Powers conceived and designed it— the giant bubble suspended above Earth, a satellite that symbolized Man’s first attempt to live in space.Cecil Kettner built it with his wealth— in a bid for limitless power. But when he realized he might lose control of the vast project in a corporation battle, Kettner decided to make one last dangerous gamble….

Three men, each driven by secret reasons, volunteered to take the strangest trip since the beginning of time:GORDON—filled with a need for power, enough power to wipe out the memory of an earlier terrible shame.LOCKWOOD—to whom life was worth very little without Susan—maybe it was worth nothing at all.STANTON—a man haunted by the knowledge that a special and mysterious fate awaited him.Behind them were their pasts. Ahead of them—infinity.In this different and suspense-filled novel, the author of Donovan's Brain tells the story of a strange quest whose outcome might mean the difference between survival and extinction for mankind.

The SF classic novel of the terror that lurked in DONOVAN’S BRAIN. DEAD…Doomed by disease, then mangled in a plane crash, there was no doubt that Donovan was dead. YET…floating in a tank of nutrient, linked to complex apparatus, Donovan’s brain still lived… ALIVE…someone walked with Donovan’s gait, wrote his signature, knew his foulest secrets—and carried out his last, weirdest plan! “Donovan’s Brain is terrific!”—THE NEW YORK TIMES