Capacity
Welcome to the year 2252—and congratulations! You’re now a personality
construct. We know that can be a daunting stage of personal development,
especially if you don’t remember making this life-changing decision. But
we’re here to help….
Helen is waking to a dark new reality—one that she’s certain she didn’t
choose. In this borrowed existence, she finds an unexpected guide in
Judy, a geisha-faced virgin who’s on a mission of her own. Together, the
two of them begin a dangerous run through dozens of imagined worlds in
an attempt to trap a psychopath haunting the shadowed areas of virtual
space—a killer who brutally murdered an earlier version of Helen and who
plans to kill again. Meanwhile, Justinian is investigating a peculiar
rash of AI suicides on far-off planets—and finds that not only is there
more to these “deaths” than he thought, but that they may be linked to
his wife Anya’s mysterious coma.
In a future where AIs have taken over human life and the Environment
Agency runs everything for our own good, the fact that we can live on
after physical death as sentient digital beings should have been a good
thing. Instead, as Helen and Justinian are about to discover, it just
means there are more ways to die.