Ready-Made Dreams

Lars Quickbreath has problems. He has awaken from one nightmare, into another. The world is a seething cauldron of madness, ruled by a demented despot, policed by privacy invading technologies, where terrorism and wars are an everyday occurrence, and militarism has all but overrun civilian population. Swept by circumstance, Lars finds himself on a bizarre odyssey through the world he thought he knew, plagued by questions. What is the Government's interest in Lars? Why does an omnipotent artificial intelligence seek him? And who, or what, has stolen Lars' dreams?