In the middle of the twenty-first century, Bry, a twenty-seven-year-old Londoner with no ambitions other than to do his best to do nothing, get a bit of sex with bearable regularity, pay his cubicle rent as best he can and, above all, get enough of his favourite drug, bookvirt, sees his existence pass before him without experiencing any desire to get involved with his peers in any manoeuvre that would help to move the wheels of the system. Nothing...