BIORIPPLE - A Law-Enforcement teacher hunts down members of a crime
organization in an attempt to curb an illegal autonomy inside the
city.
A Bio-Punk Graphic novel by Nir Levie
Blade Runner meets Brazil
Emily is a law enforcement teacher who suffers from an anxiety disorder.
Actual law enforcement isn't performed by people, with automatons having
replaced humans. In Emily's world, humanity discovered that
consciousness occupies multiple dimensions. Technology has allowed them
to digitally house minds. This is referred to as "Hopping" which became
illegal after it was proved that the minds that hop begin to suffer and
go into a heightened state of panic.
Every individual is connected to Geodesics - a powerful AI which
converses with each person and guides their decisions. Geodesics is
present everywhere, lending it near omnipresence, yet it is not
conscious in the same way humans are. The Manifold is an anti-Geodesics
organization. Their goal is to free people from AI, aiming to create an
autonomy within the city which is devoid of Geodesics. The Manifold uses
hopping to accomplish its goals. Once a copy of a mind is created,
Geodesics is unable to locate the physical body associated with it and
is forced to send law enforcement teachers after the hoppers.
When Emily is called upon to locate a hopper, she fails to apprehend him
due to an unknown force used by The Manifold. Tim sees the whole scene
from an apartment window. He is an Architecture teacher. Actual
architecture is a profession which no longer exists, being taken over by
AI and automatons as well.
The story follows Emily and Tim from their points of view as The
Manifold plays a key role in shaping their future. Freedom of choice
itself hangs in the balance as the forces of the technological world and
biological mysteries collide.
