Keith Roberts' episodic novel: The Inner Wheel. Follow Jimmy Stringer, then Libby Maynard, and then Roley Stafford as they are drawn to the town of Warwell-on-Starr, to become part of a group consciousness that is forming there: the Inner Wheel. Possessed of superhuman powers, this new consciousness has decided to tackle the problem of War...

Only the first third/segment (same title as the book) saw previous publication - in New Writings in SF 6 (1965.)