This allegorical fantasy depicts a country facing its inevitable date with a future containing an ever diminished energy supply. It is immaterial whether this frantic scramble for energy occurs during the next fifty years, as this story suggests, or whether it takes a hundred or two hundred years. Sooner or later, Man must face up to this certain date with empty oil tanks. Mankind must locate energy that doesn't rely on the burning of fossile fuel.

In the midst of the ever spiraling upwards price of energy, a power hungry man, Senator Tony Callas, introduces and gets quickly ratified, a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to create an all powerful energy czar. As the Energy Secretary his political skullduggery becomes his fatal flaw. Once more it is demonstrated that unrestrained power can only corrupt. It takes chance occurrences beyond human control to excile this tyrant to a self made purgatory.

Recluse astrophysicist, Febus Maximillian, discovers a carbon asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. This Main Belt Asteroid is emitting usable quantities of ultra violet light. This discovery, in increasingly complicated steps, dissolves his privacy and thrusts him into the public domains of marriage, politics and celebrity status.

Brilliant, aged genetic biologist, Ezar Deeko, discovers what he believes to be a new, zero point life form, the carbocrystalline. Not only is the carbocrystalline manifested in the new carbon asteroid but appears to mutate a man, Avrum Bengel, into a new species of carbon eater. Through Deeko's efforts this allegorical figure delivers mankind a final solution to the energy crisis. Although Deeko doesn't live to see it, 8000 carbocrystalline Deeko Domes soon dot the country, producing pollution free energy.

Avrum Bengel, everyman and no man, endures a genetic metamorphosis to become a carbon eater. The emission of useful quantities of ultra violet radiation from his crystal eyes demonstrates the potential solution to the energy crisis. But his condition severs all ties with job, girlfriend, sister, niece and all mankind. Readers will delight in the antics of Bengel's metamorphosis as he is transformed before the very eyes of all his family and friends. The bizarre reactions of his long time girl, his family doctor, and neighbors provide both humor and insight into the sociological biases of man.

Bengel's ultimate sacrifice lifts him to the mountain top of human allegorical figures. Out of the spores of Bengel's disintegrated body grow the Deeko Domes which deliver nearly free energy in perpetuity to mankind. Use of his crystalline, diamond-like eyes which he freely donates to mankind leads to construction of the attoprojector. Keeber, Deeko's scientific heir, utilizes the attoprojector to provide magical insights into the quantum origins of man's consciousness.

The story suggests advances in artificial intelligence which culminate in the startling award of a Nobel Prize in physics to LAMM, a Laser Assisted Molecular Machine, for discovering the holowave. This leads to the solution of a problem: invisible holowaves emitted by the Deeko Domes diminish sexual desire and fertility. LAMM also reveals the possibility of another more controversial genetic manipulation -- ectogenesis, the practice of cloning uteruses that can nurture babies in their own personalized wombs. Aldous Huxley's brave new world has arrived.

This story exposes the political skullduggery aimed at the scientific circles of legitimate researchers. In the future new energy sources are hunted as big game once was, without compassion. This allegory suggests the search for new energy must include an understanding of the mechanism that launched the search -- the human mind. Not until man comprehends that his staunch beliefs and his insistence on established scientific law is the biggest obstacle to invention and innovation, will a new flag of intellectual prosperity unfurl.

Several balls of yarn unravel in this script: the personal terror of a man who must lose all human qualities in order to make a humane contribution and fulfill his destiny; the struggle of a scientist who must change his nature and identity in order to maintain his ethics and avoid being strangled by political intrigue; the temptation of a nation, faced with energy starvation, to solve its problem by anointing an energy czar as dictator; the union of two lonely couples shows the beauty of requited love; and, lastly, a society that must decide whether to climb aboard the life raft, named amorality, or cling to the sinking ship, named morality.