John Adam thinks of himself as an ordinary man. But when his consciousness is uploaded, appropriated as intellectual property, and forced into slave labour in a far-future corporate dystopia, he must find the will within himself to become extraordinary. A gripping novelette by Xauri'EL Zwaan.

Xauri'EL Zwaan is a Lunarpunk Satanist Cyberqueer and a mendicant artist in search of meaning, fame and fortune, or pie (where available). Ze has published short fiction, among other places, in Galaxy's Edge, Transform the World, Saskatchewan Screams, and We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022. Ze lives and writes in a little hobbit hole in Saskatoon, Canada on Treaty 6 territory with zir life partner and two very lazy cats.