Unsynced

In a near-future Olympic Peninsula hemmed in by rain, salt, and rotting timber, the isolated coastal enclave of Candor exists as the last blind spot on the continent: a dead zone untouched by the Consensus, the universal neural feed that edits decay, disease, and human misery into a seamless, pastel dream of corporate perfection. Outside the mountains, three hundred million synchronized citizens move through curated cities with smoothed retinas, utterly blind to the peeling paint and discar...