Symutal

"The ping of the oven cut like a shard of glass through brain tissue, tearing apart the cloth of melancholia that she wore like a hood." The year is 2057. In one month humanity will have passed the Algorithm Singularity - a point of no return by when the automated systems that run the Earth will have cast a net too vast ever to be free of. As the singularity approaches, Omicore becomes the first private company to build a server farm on the Moon, far from terrestrial interference. "The counter response from a system too complex for us to understand will be both unpredictable and deadly." Page, a socially awkward but prodigal hacker is hired by Omicore to work on its next-gen security system, using a new form of simulated consciousness. When government agents try to shut down the company, his unfinished research is the only thing standing in their way. Linearity becomes blurred in this reality-shifting fight for humanity.