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Jed Morble's world is totally covered by substantial skyscrapers that are tens of kilometers tall and prolong miles under the surface. There's not a bare spot of ground that's not protected with blacktop or occupied by one of the "megascrapers". A huge selection of billions of men and women spend their lives totally within these monsters of technology, living, working, shopping, comforting...Rare is the average person who projects onto the roofs or even crosses to another building. The concept of "outside", of renewable hills and vast natural countryside, has been all but ignored because it's all been paved over or built upon. These an incredible number of megascrapers include one vast, limitless city. THE TOP City. Jed, a large city man, is weary of the limitless hurry of civilization. Weaned on fabulous tales of the fantastic Outdoors told to him by his long-dead grandmother, he longs for the exterior, but understands he'll never think it is. So he trudges despondently through his pointless lifestyle, until 1 day, he happens after a doc that points the way to a door that leads to another world - of renewable hills and vast natural countrysides. The one problem is, the entranceway is profound in the heart and soul of the bombed-out section of the town that now provides as a jail for the dregs of population. Jed decides to help make the attempt. His trip will lead him through unlawful territory and into an enormous, unspoiled new world, where he'll clash with aliens who once decimated the planet earth and will ultimately learn a shocking technique about the new world he plans to call home.
