It's 2050, and LAPD Detective Terri Pastuzka has drawn the short straw
with her first assignment of the new decade. Someone has executed one of
the city's countless immigrants, and no one (besides the usual besieged
advocacy groups) seems to much care. Even Terri herself is already
looking ahead to her next case before an unexpected development reveals
there's far more to this corpse than meets the eye.
And a lot already meets the eye. In a city immersed in augmented
reality, the LAPD have their own superior network of high-tech
eyewear--PanOpts, the ultimate panopticon--allowing Terri instant access
to files and suspects and literal insertion into the crime scene using
security footage captured from every angle the day the murder occurred.
What started as a single homicide turns into a string of unsolved
murders that tie together in frightening ways, leading Terri down a
rabbit hole through Los Angeles's conflicting realities--augmented and
virtual, fantastically rumored and harrowingly true--towards an
impossible conclusion.
Exploded View is the story of a city frozen in crisis, haunted by
hardship and overwhelmed by refugees, where technology gives everyday
citizens the power to digitally reshape news in real time, and where
hard video evidence is impotent against the sheer, unrelenting power of
belief. After all, when anyone can forge their own version of the truth,
what use is any other reality?
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