The R-Master Author:Gordon R. Dickson The World Economic Council in the mid-21st Century has turned life on Earth into Paradise on Earth by eliminating poverty, want, war, and ill health through its rigorous bureaucratic commitment to social regulation and the administration of the drug Reninase-47, one of the potential effects of which is to stimulate some recipients' speed and... more » ability to see solutions to problems; on the other hand, it can also turn some recipients into idiots. Etter Ho is one of the lucky ones . . . or so he thinks, until he learns that Earth under the WEC is not quite the place he thought it was.« less