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27 overdue deliverables. 55 new email threads. 32 scheduling conflicts. 2 job transitions within the last hour. Business as usual for Martin Lange, who’s neither particularly thrilled nor agitated about it. It’s been a long time since he was particularly thrilled or agitated about anything, actually. For he lives an optimized existence.

Decades of violent ups and downs in the gig economy have taught Martin to put his faith in the god AI Sandra. There is not much of a choice, really, as in the year 2048 every aspect of the human experience is fully quantified and subjected to ruthless optimization.

But when Sandra goes silent during a routine flight to Frankfurt, Martin is suddenly thrown back into a terrifying reality that doesn’t abide by numbers …

Airplane thriller meets corporate satire meets AI!