Deep Outer Space:
Idea wakes aboard a starship. She is the only passenger. There is no cockpit. There is no engine room. She has no memory of her past or her name. Where is she? Who is she? What the hell happened to Planet Earth?
Tokyo, Earth, 2038:
At Mortech Labs pod sleepers live out personally designed virtual reality immersion lifestyles created in consultation with the Mortech Five: manipulative Varvara Kuznetsov': The Architect of Dreams', perfectionist Tanaka: 'The Anesthetist', fickle Lennox Lesceux: The Hypnotist:, deluded Vance Jansen: 'The Gamer' and lastly the mysterious Mathematician. The question is can a team of narcissistic genius' actually function?
Haruki Mori works at Mortech Labs as a lowly pod monitor. Although he has no idea who inhabits the immersion pods he babysits, he hates to admit it, but he has fallen in love with pod occupant XE.
Weaving unseen between all is The Pattern...