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The author visits his vision of a future deeply rooted in today’s rapid technological advancement in these eight global tales of the year 2040.

The collection contains stories about a hacker who must find out who perverted his greatest creation into a murder weapon (Decypher Me), a woman playing a dangerous game where reality becomes a very shaky concept and damnation is the only thing that is for certain (Repent, my app demon said), an impossible crime that leads to an even more impossible criminal (Chainbreaker), an island holding a deadly secret (The Specs are all right), a Hotel that turns into a criminal (Orchard Hotel), an interview with a CEO who made racistic vigilantism a scalable business model (Remember the Prey), an assassin working in home office (Proxy-by-nature) and a murder of a billionaire that might not be what it seems at first (A study in carbon).