What would happen to the world if a foreign intelligence gifted humanity a “machine of desires”—a device capable of literally anything? And what if the gifts of this machine are realized only through people’s perceptions, and not all people? What if there exists a group “immune” to the machine’s gifts? The stopping of society’s development, widespread banning of reality born from technology, conflicts—and, above all, the division into the immune and ordinary people.
The core conflict of this extraordinary fantastical story is people’s struggle against an illusory world built on lies and hidden manipulation. And they are opposed, as always, by traditional values—friendship, self-sacrifice, and, of course, love.
Welcome to the “forbidden reality” by Philip Hay.