I never knew what my father’s startup did. He never talked about work. Never talked to me at all, really. Then one day he said he was finally ready to show me everything.

 

Now I’m in an alternate America that conquered the globe, where robots enforce the law, they keep a superintelligent machine locked in a cage, and you can make anything you want out of thin air—so long as you have the energy.

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We’re here to steal technology that could end poverty, but I’ve caught the attention of people I shouldn’t—a celebrated athlete who sees something in me I don’t understand, a politician’s daughter with secrets of her own, and forces that would rather see me dead than let me leave. 

 

And my father? The man who brought me here? He’s hiding something.

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If I make the wrong move, I could start a war between worlds. If I trust the wrong person, I might never make it home. And every time my father looks at me, I start to wonder where home really is...