Seven stories about hacking, surveillance, artificial intelligence, human-machine interfaces, and other tech. A leading company in biomechanical augmentations sees its implants affected by a severe security failure. A surgeon operates on a patient from thousands of miles away. Inside the gigantic data centers of a tech giant, in the hard drives are sealed millenary secrets that shouldn’t have been unearthed. A young black-hat hacker hunts for a prey that proves way too big for her game. A Maintenance Unit endlessly patrols and monitors an immense complex where only the faint humming of machines can be heard. A collection of short stories between cyberpunk and information security, sci-fi and supernatural, under the reflections and shades of silicon.