ENGLISH BOOK
After what is colloquially called "The Cataclysm", a city called New
Bethleham is segregated between its center sector, where something
approaching normal life is maintained by the use of artificial sunlight,
and its oppressive and crime-ridden suburbs and outlying districts,
which are home to a new religion called "Doomsterism". Self-centered
teenager Bartholomew "Beezer" Beezenbach begins experiencing
otherworldly visions of a place that is definitely not New Bethleham.
Through a bookseller friend, Beezer is put in touch with Anna Pierce, a
wealthy girl from the city's center who has similar visions. The two of
them convince Dr. Horatio Gago of the diabolical Science Corp to explain
the visions to them. He claims that young people who experience these
visions are being psychically yoked to a machine that maintains a small
piece of the Cataclysm, which was originally created by a time travel
experiment gone wrong. Anna and Beezer encounter a resistance group
ready to storm the walls of Science Corp, and they follow, ultimately
freeing the piece of Cataclysm and ending its baleful effects on their
world.