Central Station. Tidhar L.

250,000 migrants remained to live at the foot of the giant space station. Cultures rafted together as reality and virtuality. The city around continues to grow, like a weed.

The life of cheap, but info costs nothing.

Boris Chong returns home from Mars. Much has changed. He had AUG - a Martian symbion, changing perception. The former mistress brings up a strange child who can “touch” the consciousness of data flows. A cousin is in love with a robot - a damaged cyborg, a veteran of wars, which no one remembers. Father is inconspicuously sick with memory cancer. And after Boris, the info-vampire secretly flies.

above them the central station, the interplanetary node between the earth and the cosmic colonies, where humanity has gone in all its diversity to avoid wars and disasters. Everything is connected with other, powerful entities that, through the conversation, the global network of stream of consciousness, cause irrevocable changes.

people and cars of the central station continue to adapt, flourish and evolve...