With I Robot, Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behaviour. Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.

No one knows exactly what it was during that time before it's discovery and no one will agree on what it is now but once the gates to realm of Vurt were opened, everything changed. Beginning with the bio-technical revolution that allowed dreams to be recorded onto a replayable format, allowing anyone to travel into dreams as though they were real - via the Dream Feathers.

Pollen is the sequel to Vurt (winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award), and both are concerned with a world in which dreams, drug-induced hallucination, and reality become completely intermingled. In this volume, the dream world unleashes a pollen that threatens to cause people in the real world to sneeze to death.

Rez, the lead singer for the rock band Lo/Rez is rumored to be engaged to an "idoru" or "idol singer"--an artificial celebrity creation of information software agents and existing only in virtual reality.