Beginning where the real-life Biosphere left off (its mission compromised when one of the occupants was released to treat a finger injury and returned with pizza), Boyle envisions a second mission in which four men and four women enter the sealed glass compound outside Tucson in a two-year experiment to test human beings' ability to survive in an artificial environment. Told from alternating points of view, this insightful and often hilarious novel deftly examines the foibles of human nature viewed through the eyes of a supremely self-involved cast of characters committed to achieving a cause that is at once transcendent and totally banal.
- Bruce Dinges Also selected by Vicki Ann Duraine and Helene Woodhams
