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All systems collapse. All societies collapse. All worlds end. Ray Nailer, finalist for the Nebula Award, Ray Bradbury Award, and Arthur C. Clarke Award, and winner of the Hugo and Lucas Awards, returns with a captivating technological thriller. “A fast-paced dystopian suspense novel” - SFX Magazine. “First-class science fiction” - Corey Doctoroff. “A novel of ideas as much as a technological thriller... a more profound and moving work than the work of Philip K. Dick” - The Irish Times. In a familiar but different Europe, ruled by artificial intelligence, life has become more efficient, objective and peaceful. However, not everything is as it seems. Meanwhile, on the eastern edge of Europe, the Federation endures under the rule of a president who has maintained his power by transferring his consciousness from one body to another. As both worlds begin to collapse, Lilia, a Federation scientist, discovers a way to sneak past surveillance and change the balance of power. On the run, she reluctantly becomes the focus of a struggle between resistance and control. But the systems and people around them may be beyond reform. Is there a way to put humanity's future back in its hands?