Safe State

It's 2058. Six years ago, the Winter of Disconnect shattered Britain and stole Jas McDonnell's childhood. She survived. Millions didn't.

Now Jas manages survivor's guilt with electromagnetic emotional correction, artificially induced reality, and good old chemical escape. She scrapes a living under the unblinking lenses of the storybirds, hoping to trigger their interest algorithms and stream a few moments of her life to poverty-voyeurs in the transhumanist playground of Grand London.

But whe...