1. The World is an Art Supply
Albert Snuck’s Mindwipe through the forest preserve incident
Barbie Malroux, a Drulgoorijk Art Institute cheerleader, shames architect Mitchell Emerson for his stale, doctrinaire architectural work. Drained by his abuse of the Justice Information System, the hot tempered Emerson accesses a racy personal ad on the Telepathic Database.
A newly-hired librarian Mindwipes on his first day on the job. When he assaults a coworker and screams that he’s an alien from planet Cnzaar, Library director Peter Traumfoster begins to fear a dangerous glitch in the Telepathic Database’s billions of lines of computer code.
Anna, a young businesswoman, intimidates director Peter not only with her complex Bolivian bank question but also with her direct access to the Justice Information System.
High school art students Oliver Perrine, traumatized by the terrorist bombing of the First International FTTF Convention, and Sam Emerson, coolly pragmatic and politically aware, struggle to define themselves against their fascist fathers, the founders of the reviled Citizens Against Triangles.
Peter discovers he’s apparently stolen the mysterious Anna Winstead from the FTTF’s top terrorist, Robert Plill.
Sam’s sister Teresa wanders drunk in the woods in search of Oliver, discovering that she’s a link in generation upon generation of power people, and that she and Oliver belong to the secret society of Tree Leopards.
2. Awaken the Sleep Within
The telepathic tablets party through the disastrous NOT ANNA command
Mitchell Emerson telepathically reviews his girlfriend Shelley’s files after she proclaims that she too is an alien from Cnzaar. Distraught, he deepens his drunk at a party, using the Telepathic Database to sample everyone’s sexual history.
A sudden desire for Emerson’s ex-wife Barbara prompts FTTF leader Edward Duce to drive to the Junior League of Drulgoorijk, punch out women, expose himself, and get arrested.
A library clerk invents hallucinogenic Concentrated Telepathic Tablets and spreads them to the Drulgoorijk Art Institute. Sam writes the story of how he and Oliver tripped on CTT and how Oliver lost his grip on his sanity. Oliver leads Sam to the barn where he half-heartedly tried to kill himself months ago.
Using the AnimalChoice program to become a computerized rhinoceros, Peter follows his lover Anna to a bleak ghetto to witness her affair with Telepathic Database programmer Manfred Pierce.
Oliver relates what happened after Sam passed out on the CTT trip. Still unsure whether it was a dream, he writes about how he and Sam were kidnapped by Shelley, Sam’s father’s girlfriend, aboard a flying saucer, how she demanded his help as a Tree Leopard in the Cnzaarian quest to prevent the Earth’s destruction, and how the cat K’han, a fellow Tree Leopard, rescued the boys.
At her father’s fortress for a weekend visit, Randall Perrine’s young daughter Elise reviews her double agent spy work, but knows she has no one to confide in about her near-rape by an FTTF agent. Instead she must participate in the farcical legal dissolution of Citizens Against Triangles. Her father nears Mindwipe as he reveals years of hidden passion for Emerson’s ex-wife Barbara.
The shock of falling in love with the powerful mayor of Drulgoorijk enables Assistant Library Director Donald Roseparker to read her Cnzaarian code. The librarians begin to understand the strange static their Telepathic Database has been accumulating for months.
Suzanne Ramsey, the girl who survived the terrorist bombing with Oliver but disdains his love, unexpectedly asks him on a date, but Peter wrecks it when he intervenes to plead for Oliver’s Tree Leopard Society to help the Group of Librarians fight the Cnzaarians.
Hoping to stop himself from telepathically snooping on Anna, Peter instead cripples his telepathic searching capabilities with a NOT ANNA command which hastens the destruction of the Group.
3. A Tour of Raw Architectural Space
Suzanne’s kidnapping through Sam’s journey to Cuxlacjs
Suzanne refuses a degrading summer job at the library and seeks refuge at the homeless shelter. Drugged, she wakes up in a Mindwiped street person’s apartment as his personal librarian hostage.
Mitchell Emerson, having broken with Citizens Against Triangles, is set to make a creative comeback, but the For the Triangles Foundation and its insufferable Deputy Director of Operations, Robert Plill, step in to plunder his work.
Oliver and his friend Godwin escape a kidnapping attempt by seductive Cnzaarian high school girls. In despair, Teresa Emerson offers herself to Oliver at his one-man art show. She’s followed by two young men from the University of Drulgoorijk who want to teach Oliver how to pilot flying saucers.
Anna drives into the rural north to embark on a quest for self-knowledge, but is sideswiped by FTTF rapist Garbid Morgensnerl and stuffed into his trunk.
Thalia Solisteal, the charismatic mayor of Drulgoorijk, is unable to hold the city together as fanatic CAT and FTTF factions go into overdrive at the Pledge of Resistance Rally. Sam sees his mother Barbara dancing on stage, clad in only three triangles. Anna Winstead is paraded in a garbage bag, slated to be hacked to death on stage. Thalia calls in a Cnzaarian flying saucer to break up the riot.
Trapped in the burning library with Oliver and the mayor, Sam tries to reconstruct his personality after being Mindwiped.
Four thousand FTTF troops overwhelm Randall Perrine’s rural fortress. He uses the Telepathic Database to learn how to escape in a helicopter, but sees he’s been mortally wounded. After he crashes the helicopter in a neighboring town, Tree Leopards Freda Cameron and K’han the Siamese cat try to explain his destiny to him. Borrowing Freda’s car, Perrine drives into a field where he meets and destroys robot alien Mrr-plic. Mitchell Emerson, reconciled with his Cnzaarian girlfriend Shelley, comforts Perrine as he dies.
Robert Plill holds several main characters hostage on a freeway overpass, seeking to create a new FTTF empire from the ruins of Drulgoorijk.
Oliver escapes to the dark Art Institute, talking to Sam in his head. Edward Duce seeks asylum at Oliver’s garage apartment. In thrall to him, Oliver feebly tries to articulate his theory of art and life, “Shackism,” against Duce’s Mindwiped paeans to the all-encompassing SORTMIND program that runs the Telepathic Database. But once he realizes that Sam is truly dead, Oliver burns down his own apartment to execute Duce for the murder of his father and his friends.
Oliver sees that fellow Tree Leopard Teresa is real, that Suzanne has always been a fantasy.
Sam has scary new duties in a city far to the south. Barbie Malroux, the cheerleader he's refused to admit he loves, proves to be an emissary from the Other World.