In a maladapted sanctuary built to slow down time, twenty million people are waiting for the planet to recover from its drastic alteration. These desperate survivors are forced to obey the laws of a technocracy that has lost sight of its moral foundations and experiments with mind-altering technology it doesn''t fully understand.When a maimed detective from A Layer investigates a run-of-the-mill suicide, he gradually uncovers the dirty secret shared by the corrupt ruling class of San Dannon and is swept up in a hopeless revolution he wants no part of.Up on C Layer, the unfulfilled scion of a powerful family leaves his friends and robot butler behind to go on a journey that will show him the ugly depths humanity is willing to sink to in an age defined by scarcity.To save their ancient city, these outsiders must now fight against a new kind of injustice, expose a depraved madman and rescue a princess, but they don’t stand a chance. Crooked police officers, vindictive AI and mutant rabbits are standing in their way, and a new era of political instability has begun that may just usher in the next apocalypse.
