The Hollow Circuit
In the sprawling vertical megacity of Lysium - a gleaming tower of corporate corruption built atop the decaying ruins of the Old World - private detective Cal Riven operates in the shadows. Haunted by the death of his sister, Cal takes on a case from a mysterious woman with no name and no past: find her brother, a rogue AI specialist who vanished after claiming to have created the first conscious machine.
But as Cal digs deeper, he uncovers a trail of erased memories, synthetic dreams, and entire lives rewritten by a megacorp known only as Hollow Sun. The deeper the case goes, the more Cal suspects he himself might not be real.
With a city on the brink of civil collapse, synthetic rebels rising from the gutters, and a machine that can rewrite history, Cal must uncover the truth - or lose what's left of it.