QUALIA

If you were in the Garden of Eden, would you have stopped Eve from eating the forbidden fruit? Or were you born a fruitarian? The year is 2099. The city is Freya and siblings Donnie and Drea chase the NeuroOrchid, a mental upgrade that promises a perfect brain.

In the year 2099, Snapdragon Industries has sold the world a perfect cure for its broken heart: the NeuroOrchid, a brain implant that eradicates pain and suffering by erasing human emotion. In the neon drenched city of Freya, most citizens have embraced this manufactured bliss. But for siblings Donnie and Drea, the cure was a lie. They wake from the procedure as "Failures," their minds scrubbed of feeling but not of their pain, marking them as anomalies to be silenced. Thrown into a brewing rebellion led by the father they thought was dead, they must navigate a world of corporate assassins, resistance groups, with their shit talking robot sidekick to uncover the truth. Qualia is a cyberpunk saga where high tech action collides with dark humor and the desperate, heartfelt fight to reclaim what it means to be human in a world that has sold its soul for peace and quiet.