The bestseller now in paperback. What happens when four men and four women live together for two years in an artificial ecosystem, a biosphere under glass? It is said to be a scientific mission: Can humans survive there, and if so, how? Boyle's fabulous story is based on a long-term experiment from the 1990s - the daring attempt to create a new world to escape the downfall of their own. Boyle transforms the narrative into a reality show from which the contestants cannot escape. Not from each other and not from the omnipresent media. Resentment, envy, and jealousy fuel the eight, and when love enters the picture, the entire fragile system is on the brink of collapse...