The Skin of Data

19 hrs. 2 min.

Language Russian

Author Reyn Karvik

Narrator Litres Avtochtetets

Description

A biosystem gradually transformed the city, like an illness that at first seems like progress. After a technogenic catastrophe, people began appearing on the streets with altered nervous systems: their skin was covered with glowing patterns, and foreign memories arose in their minds. The city stopped being just a place—it became a living organism. Some call it a curse, others a new stage in the development of human consciousness.

Rey found himself between these two worlds. His body is partly human, and his memory is not entirely his own. He isn’t a hero or the chosen one, yet his skin reacts in a special way to the Biosystem, as if it had known him for a long time. When the “clean” start hunting the carriers, and the “nodes” prepare for their next evolution, Rey must choose: hide and finally lose himself, or figure out what it means to be human when memory no longer belongs exclusively to him.