THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER ISN'T SPACE, IT'S SQUISHY. The User has plugged a Brain-Computer Interface into his own head, and a heartbeat has appeared in the sky over Neo-Veridia. Detective Miller and his crew climb the cable to investigate, and arrive somewhere with no firewalls, no filing system and no wiring diagram: the inside of a lonely young man's mind. The ground is breathing. The trees are thinking. Feelings hit like weather. And when the User falls asleep, the monster he keeps in the basement comes out to tell him the truth about himself. Guns don't work here. Code doesn't compile. Against a Shadow made of every bad review he ever got, the crew have only what they believe, and the worst thing it can say to them is that they aren't real. To save the man who kept them alive, they must sink to the bottom of his subconscious, where a garbage droid is about to attempt the most delicate repair in the history of computing.
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