Of course, the sheep got the worst of it… Their neural structures proved ideal for testing. Once there were rabbits and pigs; now guinea pigs and rams became the test subjects. At first, people merely sheared them. Now the shearing itself was done with their help. And to make the sheep even happier, they made them smarter.

The result? Hundreds of fluffy, adorable sheep with the intelligence of a sheepdog—and a fierce hatred of anyone who switched on their artificial dreams…