The World of Tomorrow

In 2039, Neurodyne Corporation plans to activate 100 million brain-computer interfaces during the centennial “World of Tomorrow” fair. The device doesn’t just connect minds—it edits perception, suppresses memories, and shapes desires without the user ever knowing.

Kaelen, the engineer who helped design the BCI, has been hiding for eighteen months. But when he learns the activation will make the conditioning permanent, he assembles a team of unlikely resisters: a discredited historian, a hacker who maps the invisible network, a carnival worker who understands the secret language of Ferris wheels, a silenced journalist, and her enhanced daughter, who is beginning to question whether her thoughts are her own.

Their mission: infiltrate the closing ceremony and break the ritual before the wheel turns. Their problem: the Order of the Wheel—the secret society that has shaped every world fair for 130 years—has already chosen them as the sacrifice.

For readers of Neuromancer and The Circle, The World of Tomorrow is a near-future thriller about attention, conditioning, and the cages we build for ourselves.

The wheel turns. You are the hub.