The Cold War is not over, the arms race continues unabated. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are rivals, working as weapons design mediums on opposite sides of the divided world, in the Western Bloc and Camp East. Their work consists of envisioning complex structures in a trance state, but these are only apparently deadly weapons, in fact they are used to make everyday tools. The masses know nothing about this, but they are happy that the government "protects" them. However, when hostile alien satellites appear in the sky above both camps, the two sides join forces in desperation to create a true weapon that will save the world. A perfect weapon. In this 1967 novel, Philip K. Dick parodies the arms race with caustic satire, giving a vision of great power competition that is just as valid today. The volume was previously published in Hungarian under the title Transz, but the reader now has it in his hands in a new translation.