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