Kuldesak

Mel’s boldness and curiosity drove him to learn more and more about his perfectly ordered but strangely unbalanced subterranean world. Eventually, he and his wife, his sister and brother-in-law, and his faithful partner become refugees in the Outside, where they are befriended by an alien anthropologist and pursued by a mechanical intelligence whose nature and goals they could hardly grasp.

Richard Cowper has written a fast-paced story of adventure, suspense and the unfathomed powers of the mind, set against a background of a computer-dominated 42nd-century Earth.