When Robin wakes up in aclinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn’t take him long todiscover that someone is trying to kill him. It’s the twenty-seventhcentury, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts arefought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities and targethistorians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, butsomeone wants him out of the picture because of something his earlierself knew.On the run from a ruthless pursuer and searching for aplace to hide, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimentalpolity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a pre-acceleratedculture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: It looks likethe ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in thisescape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radicalchange, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters—and at the mercyof his own unbalanced psyche...