The world is constantly changing. What recently seemed like fantasy will become reality tomorrow, and commonplace the day after. So people who, just ten years ago, would have become disabled now receive neurochip-controlled implants and prostheses that expand their abilities far beyond what they could do before the operation. Then even ordinary and healthy people want to improve themselves—and, left unchecked, this obsession can cross every boundary. Can there be a healthy society where the physical gap between people keeps growing? And what if you add to that a terrifying epidemic of a disease that can end your life in just a couple of days?
“maNika” is the third arc of the Possible 2029 series by tomorrow’s-day prose master Vadim Pанов.