CHAPTER 1
EARTH, NORTH AMERICA, 2067
“Guys, when you said you were writing a patch, I didn’t think you were going to go this far.”
Dr. Peter Overton stood in a terraced control room with his hands in white lab coat, shaking his head as he looked at 3D character models rotating on a giant screen.
The room was filled with game designers and programmers, who were all stewing in their own sweat. There were no windows in the room, and they’d been locked in here for over a year. Dr. Overton wished there was a window so he could air the place out. All of these people either needed to get laid, drunk, or fired.
“You can’t seriously expect me to take this report back to my board,” Dr. Overton said. “They’ll laugh me out of the room and then ask for my resignation.”
The patch manager, a woman
