Welcome to the year 2252and congratulations! Youre now a personality construct. We know that can be a daunting stage of personal development, especially if you dont remember making this life-changing decision. But were here to help.Helen is waking to a dark new realityone that shes certain she didnt choose. In this borrowed existence, she finds an unexpected guide in Judy, a geisha-faced virgin whos on a mission of her own. Together, the two of them begin a dangerous run through dozens of imagined worlds in an attempt to trap a psychopath haunting the shadowed areas of virtual spacea killer who brutally murdered an earlier version of Helen and who plans to kill again. Meanwhile, Justinian is investigating a peculiar rash of AI suicides on far-off planetsand finds that not only is there more to these deaths than he thought, but that they may be linked to his wife Anyas mysterious coma.In a future where AIs have taken over human life and the Environment Agency runs everything for our own good, the fact that we can live on after physical death as sentient digital beings should have been a good thing. Instead, as Helen and Justinian are about to discover, it just means there are more ways to die.From the Paperback edition.