richard evans

I don't want to go into the Zone, but what can we do?
We are made to empathise. It is our nature.

Alex Sorber has a problem with his memory sets. He finds himself sleepwalking, in the dead of night, remembering events that he has not experienced.

Kim Fox has a problem with her emotions. She's an android who is drawn to the plight of robot slaves - the simulants - a group of machines whom she has never met.

This strange empathy draws Alex and Kim into the Isolation Zone - a forbidden territory around an irradiated New York City, where the simulants toil in the maze-like subterranean facility known as Camp K.

Taking cutting-edge android science as its inspiration, Exilium is a future noir thriller, set in 2032 and depicting an America ruled by a fundamentalist regime, with cities stricken by the full effects of climate change.