Rin, Tongue and Dorner : a novel
(Book)

"A new ice age has driven mankind to settlements at the equator. In Clemency--a metropolis sheltered inside a transparent dome surrounded by glaciers--planning luminary Dorner hears female voices in his sleep. As the voices become more insistent, he seeks help from neuroscientist Rin, who runs tests to identify the location and import of this interior woman, who calls herself 'Tongue.' Rin's increasingly invasive experiments help Dorner to visualize Tongue, until he's able to fly through the cosmos of his brain and find the distant asteroid from which Tongue's voices beckon and provoke. Meanwhile, Rin and Dorner fall in love. Is Tongue an agent of change, bringing desire and passion to their lives, or is she Rin's worst enemy? With Rin's guidance, Dorner lands on the asteroid where tongue reigns supreme, and explores a mysterious landscape of flames and human monuments--a realm of rapture and portent that threatens to undo them all." --book jacket.