Zero Shell

The future has arrived: for your credits here, everyone will get the life that they themselves wanted!

What kind of world do you like? The Star Trek universe? The Middle Ages where sword and magic rule? The Wild West or the mysterious East, high-tech or low-fi, heaven on Earth or the Dark Side?

Shell—choose it, download it, install it! The future has arrived: for your credits here, everyone will get the life that they themselves wanted.

But will you want what you got?..

Seventeen-year-old Annie, unfortunately, has very few credits. And that’s still not the biggest problem. What should a girl do when a potential fiancé, barely explaining himself, disappears in an unknown direction the very next morning?

Chase him, of course! In the company of a horse thief and a fake guru, she ends up with a super-technological new hand and runs into a hacker from Kolpino—headed toward Freddy Mercury and Cyber-Dracula, Imperial stormtroopers and the Green Brothers, androids, freaks, geeks, and gods of programmer—sweeping aside every obstacle in their way.

The main thing is not to lose your Shell along the way. Because otherwise you’ll have to face—God forbid—the scariest thing.

Reality.