Cette saga cyberpunk se déroule dans un futur proche où les frontières entre la réalité et le monde virtuel s'estompent. La série explore les recoins sombres de l'existence numérique et de la domination des entreprises, plongeant les protagonistes dans de dangereux royaumes virtuels. Elle offre un mélange palpitant d'action, d'interrogations philosophiques et un paysage visuellement riche qui immerge les lecteurs dans sa vision dystopique.
It's 2027. Tokyo has survived the mega-quake of the millennium and Satori Corporation, the owner of a virtual-reality entertainment empire, is embroiled in cut-throat corporate warfare to preserve its market share, and save the lives of thousands of users trapped inside its virtual worlds.
The year is 2036: the art of epidermal programming means sentient tattoos can travel on-line, perform tasks for their owners in Omnispace and be transferred from body to body in forbidden techno-pagan love rituals. But a bio-software bug, code-named Mir, is about to wreak havoc on the entire Net.
It is 2038 and Wing Fat, head of a biotech drug cartel, is siphoning off vital chi essence from enslaved humans. Bootleg chi products flood the world's black markets but even Wing Fat can't have everything. Father and son virtual reality investigators, Frank and Trevor, will make sure of it.