All Robin wants is to share her new musicโand for it to sell well enough to keep her out of poverty for another year. She knows sheโs made something beautiful, something the world might love. But the world she knows is about to change.
The Global Mesh has come online, a revolutionary network that covers the planet in โinfinite connection,โ spawning a new age of disposable devices and virtual experiences. Everything will be fast, easy, and cheap, for everyone. The only price for this utopia of convenience? A dissonant, maddening hum. Everywhere, all the time. And itโs getting louder.
As the noise rises and society mutates around it, Robin finds herself struggling to hold onโnot just to her art but to her sanityโin a world so blinded by progress it canโt see what itโs leaving behind. Someone has to do something radical. And Robin is starting to worry it might be her.
Isaac Marion is the author of the New York Times bestselling Warm Bodies series, which has been adapted into a major film and translated into twenty-seven languages. He has lived his whole life in the Pacific Northwest, playing in obscure Seattle bands, exploring the surrounding wilderness, and writing stories.