Who is the Basilisk? What is the ichor? And if the wrong truth can destroy the world… might the right lie be able to save it? She partners with city police agents Sam Pollock and Rob Boardsmith on her search and drags them into a wider web of deception and murder, of revolutionaries and pretenders-all the while being pursued by VitaCorp’s most dangerous enforcer, a hunter who wears a black leather hood and adds a tally to his battery pack for each soul that he reaps. Hannah Preacher is a woman searching for her missing lover-a man she believes to have been killed by VitaCorp agents. Rumors ripple across the city of abductions and even killings by stoic, suited employees of the black tower, and even stranger still-their enforcers are said to possess technology the likes of which the world has never seen. Their power is absolute, to the point that even the city government bows to their will. None have influence that could compare to VitaCorp’s, the medical mega-conglomerate whose onyx-black tower dominates the city’s skyline. The story unfolds across a city dominated by extragovernmental corporations that rose to power in the wake of a crisis far in the city’s past. Beverly Beadie, a programming technician and one of the principal engineers of the Michelangelo project, is recovering from a deep, personal tragedy-and her relationship with the AI she helped to create slowly shifts in ways that challenge the very tenets of AI security. Its name is Michelangelo, and it is an artificial intelligence that generates masterworks of film, music, and even literature. specializing in content synthesis dominate the media landscape of New Phoenix, led by the greatest artistic mind ever known to mankind. What strange new technologies has VitaCorp perfected? And when the light itself becomes a weapon, who, then, is the true power in the city?Ī.I. In the neon-drenched cyberpunk metropolis of New Phoenix, glass towers will rattle as heroes and criminals clash. Humanity came back from the brink of annihilation, but every crisis leaves its scars. Theme of the book: Second chances, personal change, truth as a social construct, the power of media, and the nature of art Main characters: Hannah Preacher, Sam Pollock, Rob Boardsmith, Beverly Beadie, Michelangelo, Clive Avery, Braxton Graves Setting place(s) of the story: New Phoenix, 2153 Genre: Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fantasy
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