Klyukin worries that advanced technology will lead to a new age of primitiveness as humanity divests itself of the guile that made such progress possible in the first place.
But for all that Collective Mind is steeped in ideas, it remains pacey and propulsive right to the final page.
Comparisons with Orwell and Bradbury are inevitable, but Klyukin insists that, unlike those sci-fi titans, the subject of his anxiety is not where society is heading but how it is now.
