A Splendid Chaos
by John Shirley

Description:
Zero and Bowler and Angie and Cisco strolling through night-time New York City looking for a. good time. They walk into a new club with no cover charge, no minimum; the music is loud and the drinks are free. But the fun ends when the entrance seals seamlessly and a man extrudes from the wall. . .

Zero wakes up in an alien environment. He has been abducted by the Meta and become a pawn in a weird cosmic game of survival. The Earthers have thirty other intelligent, ambitious, and sometimes monstrous species to deal with. But the their greatest enemy may be a fellow human, Harmon Fiskle, a power-mad adovocate of a strange form of social Darwinism. Despite Fiskle's oppostion, a cross-species expedition embarks on a quest that takes them into a surreal adventure as the search for truth.