Hot Sky at Midnight

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At Samurai Industries, Paul Carpenter monitors toxic clouds drifting across the Pacific Northwest, knowing that a miscalculation could result in mass casualties. Nick Rhodes, a research scientist at Santachiara Technologies, explores ways for humans to adapt to an increasingly hostile Earth. His girlfriend, Isabelle Martine, a kinetic therapist and activist, vehemently opposes the new technology threatening their existence. Together, they navigate life on a poisoned planet where face-lungs and daily Screen injections are necessary for survival. In contrast, others have escaped to satellite cities, including Victor Farkas, who arrives in Valparaiso Nuevo seeking a brilliant scientist. This city, ruled by the oppressive El Supremo and his secret police, is a haven for fugitives. Farkas, accompanied by his guide Juanito Holt, searches for the man whose experiments left him blind yet gifted with extraordinary extrasensory vision. Amidst this turmoil, unsettling rumors circulate about humanity’s future: a Japanese megacorporation’s secret project to send humans to the stars, conspirators planning a coup in Valparaiso Nuevo, and a rival corporation developing genetic alterations to create supercreatures for a dying planet. This chilling narrative weaves personal drama with epic adventure, portraying lives caught in a catastrophic struggle as they seek a new paradise amidst the ruins of the past.