"Inside my head," Malcolm quoted, "a man is trying to ride a dog which is trying to ride a lizard."
Kindle. The best of the thin Brunners in quite a while. The VC total recall virus presented here as the all-saviour is a minor variant of the scepticism/science/rationality/Enlightenment meme-virus that ripped through Europe and later the world quite a while back. Apparently if our memories worked better we'd be able to solve all the problems of humanity. Then again, we might just end up with more movies like Kaufman's latest.
I guess his major failing as a novelist was his inability to construct complex characters. That and his unnuanced criticisms of religion etc.