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Untethered

Tier Zero

by David Pope

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Lucas Cadalain has spent his entire life refusing the neural implant nearly everyone else depends on. In a civilization too complex to navigate without one, that decision has condemned him to the bottom rung of society, but Lucas would rather stay a baseline than let a corporation decide what he can know, what he can become, or whether his own mind keeps working.

Then a dying old man gives him an implant that shouldn’t exist.

No subscription. No corporate owner. No skill ceiling.

And when Lucas discovers his implant can remove the restrictions from other people’s implants too, Aethis Heavy Industries suddenly has a much bigger problem than one runaway baseline.