The Earth and Moon have been kidnapped by the Pyramids, unknowable alien beings, and humanity has shrunk into a ritual society of placid Citizens like the banker Roget Germyn of Wheeling, West Virginia. Only a few restless misfits, the Wolves, still think for themselves, and one of them is about to learn what the Pyramids want.
One of the strangest novels of the great Pohl-Kornbluth partnership, serialised in Galaxy in 1957. Download the free EPUB.