Publisher's Synopsis
The world wanted to forget. And because the world wanted to forget, the past was locked away, secured behind closed doors in the gigantic buildings inside which humanity once rode out a global climate disaster that made the surface of the planet unlivable. The world wanted to forget why there had been a terrible war that occurred after the climate recovered; a war that destroyed all of the technology humanity had been developing over the millennia. For Johnny, forgetting these things was a done deal. Like many others, he had been taking drugs that not only made him feel amazing when he took them, but they eventually destroyed his memories as well. He has no idea that there is a man becoming President who understands that humanity has a collective drive to make their dreams a reality, and he plans to use that drive to end life as we know it. He does know that he has nowhere to turn for help in this strange world, filled with the dangerous secrets of a future passed, not just of the world, but his life as well. Despite feeling helpless, Johnny cannot shake the feeling that he somehow has the power to fix the world's problems himself. He is fast discovering that forgetting everything only solves the problems of the past him that decided to take the drugs. He is discovering that the past him has stranded the present him Alone in the Dream Collective.
