When Maggie tries to purchase a candy bar from a vending machine she
is instantly spirited away by a
sinister driverless truck. Rembrandt, Mallory and Diana soon learn
that they are on a world where
everything is provided for you as long as you live within a system
of corporate rules and, of course, have
an assigned number.
But Maggie doesn't have a number and consequently has been incarcerated
by Data Universal, the
governing corporation on this world. Now she has to pay the price.
Her sentence is to be processed and
mainstreamed into a society of lemmings. Their sole purpose is to work
just so they can purchase
products manufactured by Data Universal, whether they need them or
not.
Meanwhile, Remmy, Mallory and Diana have enlisted the aid of Arlo, a
former DU sales rep who has
managed to live outside the system. Can the others rescue Maggie before
she becomes just another
number? Or worse, a deleted file discarded into the Data Universal
shredder?
         
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