The world is paralyzed by eternal frost. Behind multiple layers of glass in sealed Domes — with an icy -120 outside and life-saving warmth inside — the warmth must be paid for with complete obedience. The remaining people are ruled by corporations that once erased the Architects from the face of the earth—idealists who created terraforming Installations to return life to the planet.
Anton Makarov is not cut out to be a hero. He is a cynical programmer who has long stopped caring about this world. For ten years he served the enemy for a single obsessive goal: to bring his dead lover back to life—one of the Architects. Only her digitized consciousness, connected to fragments of the enslaved Artificial Intelligence, can become the living Key to запуск the Installations.
But an attempt to stitch together scraps of human memory and machine code can yield an unpredictable result. A merciless race for survival begins, where not only his fate is at stake, but also Earth’s last chance to be reborn.