Hunted across a Japanese hellscape, a desperate First Lady must face murderous zealots, crazed abominations, and unholy magic to gain an audience with the shogun. But when speaking the truth spreads a literal plague, is resistance worth the cost?
In the 23rd century, people create "agents" that inhabit, respond, and act in cyberspace without human direction. What happens when a genius psychopathic killer crafts a malevolent agent and plants it on a generational starship?