In the atrocity theme park called America, cannibalism isn't just another ride. Take a journey with the ill-fated Donner Party in nineteenth-century Nevada, the U.S. government illicit-radiation conspirators in twentieth-century Washington State, and Krystal Silicon whose head is filled with tek bugs in twenty-first century low orbit. . . Companion to Tonguing the Zeitgeist, finalist for the 1994 Philip K. Dick Award for best science fiction novel.