The gravity pilot

In a future Alaska where pollution and grime are everyday realities, technology has patched the world together, though only just. Orr Sitka, a young skydiver, asks little of life beyond the woman he loves and the freedom to jump.

A reckless, record-setting dive makes him famous almost overnight, and corporations line up to turn his daring into a sports media spectacle. That same jump becomes the turning point for his girlfriend, Dyce, who accepts a tempting position in Seattle, an underground city that serves as the media capital of a decaying society.

Orr and Dyce each fall into grim, punishing circumstances that wear them down. When Orr discovers that Dyce has become hooked on virtual reality, a system run by an eccentric media billionaire and his indulgent daughter, he will do whatever it takes to reach her. The question is whether he can get through to her and free them both.