The Sinful Ones Author:Fritz Leiber If all the world is a clockwork mechanism, and all its people merely toys, then who is to say what is evil and what is good? For it does not matter what happens to toys. Yet a few trapped within the mechanism are true persons, and some of them learn the secret of escape from their clockwork prison - and how to enjoy the glorious freedom it entai... more »ls. Carr Mackay was one such...until he found that he was not alone. He shared his special world with other less well meaning than himself...« less
One of Leiber's best: a man wakes up out of Fifties conformity and discovers the Universe is a true machine. If you step out of the pattern, you literally don't exist.