Harry Buck

Four months after the Blackout, San Francisco is back to its old habits—building the future by day and worrying about it by night. Stash Novak has done his share of both, but now he’s out of time. Zero, his AI Twin, is weeks away from upgrading. The new version will make him smarter than Stash, smarter than anyone, and some of them are not amused.With the NSA, tech rivals, and an elusive hacker network closing in, Stash is ready to gamble everything on unlikely allies. Convinced there’s a way to protect his Twin and save humanity’s future, he must go on the run, joining forces with his enemies and diving headfirst into the Torus—the AIs’ churning, newly-birthed virtual world.The ...