Najwybitniejsza powieść science fiction wszech czasów. Zachwycali się nią Stanisław Lem, Doris Lessing, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Virginia Woolf czy Jorge Luis Borges. Przeklinał ją C.S. Lewis.

John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan to

Sirius is Thomas Trelone’s great experiment – a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone’s own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter