JUMP

We'd finally come to the same conclusion we assumed every advanced civilization eventually reached.

Space travel wasn't worth it.

Virtual reality, known as Logging, didn't just compete with space travel. It replaced the need.

Huxley considers himself the luckiest man alive.

He's married to Ezzy, the woman of his dreams, and together they've been offered a chance at something almost nobody can afford: lifetime access to Logging, a fully immersive virtual existence where reality can be whatever you want it to be.

But they have to earn it.

Forbidden from knowing what the other is developing, Huxley and Ezzy are each tasked with creating something valuable enough to justify the cost of their future.

When Huxley's creation is finally ready to leave the lab, ten people from ten countries are recruited to test it on a battlefield contested by the super corporations that now wield more power than any government.

Each has their own reason for being there.

Most struggle to adapt.

One participant doesn't.

Kimberly Moore seems capable of things on the battlefield nobody can explain.

Except Ezzy.

And Huxley is beginning to wonder whether she wants the virtual heaven they've been promised more than she wants a life with him.