Wind is nothing more than the movement of air molecules from one place to the next. The direction and speed of the wind represents the balance between three basic forces acting on it: the pressure gradient, the Coriolis force, and surface friction.
Biographical Information. Chip Berlet is an investigative reporter, independent scholar, photographer, videographer, and progressive activist. As a human rights activist he has spent over forty years studying prejudice, demonization, scapegoating, demagoguery, conspiracism, and authoritarianism.
The novel is set in the year 1992, by when humanity has colonized the Moon and psychic powers are common. The protagonist, Joe Chip, is a debt-ridden technician working for Runciter Associates, a prudence organization which employs inertials, people with the ability to negate the powers of telepaths and precogs, to enforce privacy of clients.