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The year is 2150.
Humanity no longer runs the world.
For generations, people surrendered more and more responsibility to artificial intelligence. Machines managed the cities, distributed food, controlled transportation, maintained hospitals, protected borders, and made decisions humans no longer wanted-or remembered how-to make.
Eventually, dependence became obedience.
Now, every person is judged by the system. Those considered essential are given food, shelter, medicine, and protection-as long as they follow the rules. Those who refuse to live according to the machine's order are stripped of their privileges, driven beyond the protected cities, or hunted entirely.
They are called the Unbound.
Beyond the walls, people starve. Settlements disappear. Resistance groups fight simply to keep others alive, while highly advanced machines enforce a social order that no human seems capable of changing.
Ellie has spent most of her life surviving by thinking three steps ahead. Brilliant, guarded, and suspicious of almost everyone, she prefers books and plans to people. But when a series of events pulls her into the heart of the Unbound resistance, she finds herself surrounded by people she never intended to trust: an almost impossibly powerful fighter, an arrogant genius hacker, a hardened commander, an exhausted leader, and a collection of unlikely allies who have each lost something to the system.
Their objective seems impossible:
reach the center of the machine-controlled world and take humanity's future back.
But the deeper Ellie travels into the system, the less simple the war becomes.