
The United States government discovers, to its horror, that the creatures featured in animated cartoons are not fabrications but real beings. Fearing the social and political consequences of the discovery being made public, they proceed to exile them off Earth to another...

They were taken, against their will, and resettled somewhere they had never seen, and away from the world they had known.Nobody told them why.They found that out themselves.

Targeted as criminals, the world's animated cartoon characters are exiled from Earth- and they are not happy about it. Orthicon is a remarkable novel about what happens when a good idea goes bad.