Neuroseed: A Cyberpunk Thriller

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It is the future, and we never made it past the moon; no colonies on Mars, and no long-distance manned voyages beyond Pluto. Humanity’s dreams and ambitions drowned under the accumulated industrial weight of its own refuse and shit. After the fall of everything we thought we could be, came the rise of everything we doomed ourselves to. The rich and the powerful fled to the moon, to Antara station, leaving the rest behind. However, they didn’t forget about us entirely – or rather, the dollar value we could generate for them. So, they built the Crawl: a cityscape spread over two thirds of the Earth’s surface, always on the move because the planet’s crust is no longer stable enough to support its weight. The Earth is dead, and the Crawl mines the last trace resources buried deep within her corpse. The Crawl is a cancer, and we are its parasites, desperately trying to stay alive. We live. We sweat. We breathe in the open gutter of existence. And, sometimes, we look up at the stars, trying to remember what it felt like for our ancestors to reach out to them.

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