num_pages: 384
description: Its 2050 and LAPD Detective Terri Pastuzka has drawn the short straw with her first assignment of the new decade. Someone has executed one of the citys countless immigrants and no one (besides the usual besieged advocacy groups) seems to much care. Even Terri herself is already looking ahead to her next case before an unexpected development reveals theres far more to this corpse than meets the eye.And a lot already meets the eye. In a city immersed in augmented reality the LAPD have their own superior network of high-tech eyewearPanOpts the ultimate panopticonallowing Terri instant access to files and suspects and literal insertion into the crime scene using security footage captured from every angle the day the murder occurred. What started as a single homicide turns into a string of unsolved murders that tie together in frightening ways leading Terri down a rabbit hole through Los Angeless conflicting realitiesaugmented and virtual fantastically rumored and harrowingly truetowards an impossible conclusion.Exploded View is the story of a city frozen in crisis haunted by hardship and overwhelmed by refugees where technology gives everyday citizens the power to digitally reshape news in real time and where hard video evidence is impotent against the sheer unrelenting power of belief. After all when anyone can forge their own version of the truth what use is any other reality?
language: English
title: Exploded View
publisher: Talos