Singapore, Jan. 21 -- In an alternate timeline, it is 2017, the president of the United States is Mrs Hillary Clinton and Brexit never happened. Nevertheless, the apocalypse still seems to be on the cards somehow.
In the midst of all this, Verity Jane, a San Francisco "app whisperer", is hired to evaluate a new digital assistant in the form of a pair of glasses, called Eunice.
But Eunice packs a personality of her own - as well as some unprecedented powers - and soon Verity is on the run from her shady employer, aided via drone by Wilf Netherton, a "fixer" from a post-apocalyptic London in an alternate future.
Netherton has been tasked by a mysterious, ageless cop, Ainsley Lowbeer, to intervene in Verity's timeline, a "stub" that has ...