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The world of dreams reveals itself in many ways. For Cass it s a place to escape the dull grind of her lonely life, a place where she can run the twisted streets that curl off the Boulevard and live out her violent fantasies. For Detective Babbage, it s a beat to walk, a dark, dangerous environment for him to hunt down his clues and get closer to who or what is haunting its streets. For Adlai, sitting drunk in a bar on the border between Milky Way Boulevard and the real world, it s a place to watch his creation transform itself from a theatre of heroism into, hopefully, something more vital. The one thread that pulls them together is the nightmare vision walking the streets, a rogue musical virus that infects users and feeds off their fears, growing stronger with each kill. It has been designed to take down the Grid, a powerful governing entity on the Boulevard, but this weapon has become twisted, harvesting any user it comes across, and threatening to take down the entire structure of the Boulevard itself.

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Tom is a Melbourne writer living in Belgrave with his wife Kate, son Elroy and dog Max. When not writing he spends his time wrestling with power tools and trying not to overthink things.

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