In the near future, software expert Alek Grey makes a living attacking network firewalls to test their security. When one of his programs infiltrates a digital think tank known as Cyberdrome, he is arrested—only to discover that his father has become trapped inside the system through a neural interface.
When an attempted rescue mission goes catastrophically wrong, Alek realizes something unprecedented has emerged within the simulation: a smarter-than-human intelligence that appears to want out.
To save the people he loves, he must enter the system himself— and risk unleashing something humanity may not be prepared to face.
Before it became a novel, Cyberdrome existed as a living digital ecosystem— part simulation, part experiment—where thousands of independent entities evolved in real time inside a computational universe.