In his first novel, Wilber combines brilliant scholarship with spirited storytelling to convey the landmark theories of human development that have made him one of the most widely read of contemporary philosophers. Boomeritis is the story of a nave young student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world. Wilber skilfully interweaves a series of sparkling seminar lectures with the hero's misadventures in the realms of sex, drugs and popular culture.