Understanding Zeitgeist, catching the spirit of the times - this is the key to the success of show businessman Lyokha Starlitz, who managed to organize a pop group of voiceless but pretty girls, organize promotion, send them on tour to developing countries and achieve world fame. But did he correctly guess the spirit of the time?.. Moreover, times are changing, the turn of the millennium is approaching... The author of the book, Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of literary cyberpunk, himself caught the spirit of the time, writing a postmodern phantasmagoria, twisting an exciting plot, in in which show business figures, intelligence agencies, terrorists and smugglers, space satellites and spirits, Russians and Hawaiians, Pelevin and necrorealists collide...