<p><strong>2040&hellip;VENTURA CALIFORNIA</strong><strong>: &nbsp;</strong></p><p>Becca Wilde, a terminally ill teenage autistic savant, senses a presence&mdash;an intelligence&mdash;in The STREAM, the virtual reality entertainment phenomenon created by her tech-billionaire father.</p><p>She believes the intelligence can create a cure, but her father intends to use radical technology. They are running out of time.</p><p>Then technology stops working.</p><p>All of it.</p><p>No Internet. No screens. Not even cars. But one thing is working&mdash;a Russian A.I. that mutated&mdash;and is now <em>In the Wild</em>.</p><p>Becca may hold the key to the future. Any future. If there is going to be one.</p><p>But&hellip;only if she can communicate with a super-intelligence&mdash;that hasn&rsquo;t been invented yet.</p>