"Stage of Fools" is the centerpiece of the Thomas Mariner Neurotechnology Trilogy. It is a tale told from a San Francisco intensive care unit, by billionaire Steven Levinson, a patient who has fallen into a coma, who must take captive time to reexamine and learn from the suppressed events of his life, so that he might reawaken healed and save the family he has set at the brink of destruction by his jealousy, vanity, and recklessness. If there's still time for this modern King Lear.