lot Summary: likely found on the back of the book
A struggle for self in the neuronal depths of consciousness.
In a near future, writing has been replaced by a dream-language that has destroyed books as effectively as by burning. Some have fused their minds to an artificial intelligence that harnesses humanity’s sleeping brain for meaning-making, while others perform manual labor under remote neural control.
Isaac is a teenager, groomed for a system he increasingly sees as oppressive. Will he join the Mindnet? Or will he forsake his privilege for love, learn to read, and spend the rest of his life remote controlled by those in power: choosing either poverty or the struggle against the Mind-eating pull toward the dreamscape? But if his limbic connection is removed, can his conditioned brain even learn to regulate itself? Or will he end up a lúcido: the shell of a person who lives to consume dreams?