In a world wrecked by climate change in a society owned by the ultra-rich in a city hollowed out by industrial flight Hubert Etc Seth & Natalie have nowhere else to be & nothing better to do But there is another way After all now that anyone can design & print the basic necessities of life
- food clothing shelter
- from a computer there is little reason to toil within the system So like thousands of others in the mid-21st century the three of them turn their back on the world of rules jobs the morning commute & walkaway It's a dangerous world out there; the empty lawless lands are hiding predators
- animal & human alike Still when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish the few become many building what threatens to become a post-scarcity utopia But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy how to beat death & now it's war
- a war that will turn the world upside down