ISBN 0-451-16278-1 (US pbk),,, 0-586-20809-7 (UK pbk)

"The Cylinder is a massive structure rising miles above the surface of an unknown future Earth. Axxter, the hero of Farewell Horizontal , has forsaken the dull, nine-to-five life of Cylinder's Horizontal levels to go where the action is -- the Vertical, where freelancers, warring tribes and other nomadic types live along the slings and cables of Cylinder's outer edge.

"His dream is to be a successful graffex artist, designing armour and ikons for the various tribes -- and, like all citizens, he is linked by a microchip in his brain to the complex computer system that runs the economy.

"But when Axxter accepts a really big job -- creating all-new military imagery for one of Cylinder's most powerful tribes -- he begins a dangerous journey that will take him to the far side of Cylinder -- and beyond..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1990]

"High strangeness rating. Weird concept. More bizarreness from a master of the form." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).