This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events." --Kirkus Reviews ". . .
But will they let it kill their souls? "An intensely suspenseful page-turner." --School Library Journal "A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works .
The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives.
Nothing but endless flights of Stairs leading nowhere--except back to a strange red machine.
It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor.
One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building.
This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned
