In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled
with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a
naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel
deep into the District of Dreams in search of Rashana Birla, the one
person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived
of the apps and informational tools he's depended on his entire life,
traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.
Inside an ephemeral labyrinth of slowly-dissolving disposable
skyscrapers clogged to the limit with the bankdead masses, Amon soon
finds himself face to face with two dangerous groups: a cult called the
Opportunity Scientists, who preach bizarre superstitions about economic
salvation, and a supposedly humanitarian organization called the
Philanthropy Syndicate, whose mandate of serving the poor conceals
rapacious motives.
Amon takes refuge in Xenocryst, a community that genuinely strives to
improve conditions in the camps, where he begins to work towards its
cause and reconciles himself to his newfound poverty. But when political
forces threaten the community's existence and the lives of its members,
he is forced to team up with a vending-machine designer, an Olympic
runner, a fertility researcher, a corporate tycoon, and many others to
expose the heinous secret festering at the heart of the
action-transaction market he once served.
In book two of the Jubilee Cycle, Eli K. P. William delves beneath the
surface of his cyber-dystopian Tokyo to unearth the fate of outcasts
trapped in its depths and shine a light on the financial obstacles
blocking one individual's efforts to help them.
