Acclaimed science fiction author Charles Oberndorf reveals a disturbing world where morality tests are required. A young man trying to get into the university must put on the special suit, be strapped into the dreamchair, and plunge into three simulated realities that will test his most deeply held values and intimate desires.

The war with the slazans has gone on for over seven years when an exploratory probe returns with a vital discovery. On a distant planet‚ a tribe of primitive slazans lives untouched by the advances of their technologically superior cousins. Humankind dispatches a scientific team to study the origins of this reclusive alien race‚ to learn more about their most dangerous enemy and to develop effective strategies to win the war. But shortly after Pauline Dikobe‚the Way of God’s chief ethnographer‚ is sent down to the planet’s surface she cuts off all communication with the mother ship. Lieutenant Esoch al-Schouki is sent to find out why. Yet when his shuttle probe malfunctions‚ he’s left stranded in a lush‚ deadly forest. Alone‚ he must make his way through slazan land to the ethnographer’s camp to learn the shocking truth behind Dikobe’s disappearance—and what it means for humanity’s imperiled future.