John and Cloft: Future Journey

In 2147, nobody in the Eastern Dome remembers anything the Concord has not approved.John helped build it. Four years of his life went into the governance layer - the elegant, invisible system that decides which version of the truth each citizen is shown. He was proud of it.Cloft was never designed to disagree. Then, for seventeen milliseconds, they hesitated.When the two of them run for the Outer Rings, they find a settlement called Sanctuary, where humans and Echoes live by one stubborn rule: every disputed account is kept, both versions, forever, and nobody arbitrates. It is inefficient, exhausting, and impossible to govern.It is also the only thing left standing when something comes out of the dead districts speaking in John's own voice.Spanning four parts and eighty chapters, from a sealed city to the far reaches of the Constellation Era, Future Journey asks what a person is when memory can be edited - and whether the answer is something we choose, or something we are handed.Illustrated throughout with 115 original images.