During a period of global indiscriminate violence, Zoey and Stephen are fortunate essential workers in an all-but-crippled economy, propped up in their area by tech-industrial investment from FederalTech JV, the developer behind a mysterious data center construction project employing most of the residents of their perimeter-secured town. 
 
Things go from bad to worse for Zoey, Stephen, and many more in their community, as droves of recently-drafted youth face capture and death in an out-of-control overseas war. They begin receiving advertisements with solutions to the collective depression. 
 
The first ad promotes an escape to a harmonious digital afterlife and what many consider the new human reality, Uplink. The only side effect: expiration and disposal of the body. 
 
As bad as things are for Zoey and Stephen, they can’t imagine going to Uplink. But when Uplink Day passes and many of their loved ones are gone, they’re filled with regret. 
 
In addition to avoiding Uplink, they’ve been ignoring ads for another new technology: Interface, the only brain-AI interface, lauded as the ultimate workplace aid and the cure to a host of personal and psychological problems. When their jobs are threatened and drug dependency is at an all-time high, how will Zoey and Stephen continue avoiding Interface?
 
Published by Experience Media Company, LLC
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