Book concept art: the transparent wall of Simone's empty upper-band loft overlooking the city.
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Book concept art: Simone's loft

Single-use places named in the books: Mekhi's sublevel workspace with six holographic displays, R.S.'s residential suite high in the Near-North band, Dr. Mills's former grief clinic in the Bronzeville corridor, Simone's transparent-walled loft in the upper band, Duke's barbershop, 79th, Sixty-Third Street and the South Concourse.

From the books

“It lived deep in a sublevel of the Near-South District, where the civic skin above him hummed with routed life, its teal diagnostic veins pulsing through the ceiling like a second circulatory system.”

Part 1, Chapter 2: The Frame That Won't Stay Gone, p. 27

“He shut the notification with a hard swipe and stepped into the hallway, carrying jagged truth like contraband.”

Part 1, Chapter 2: The Frame That Won't Stay Gone, p. 46

“Helen had run a community grief clinic in the Bronzeville corridor, back when the corridors were called neighborhoods and the city let people break against each other without intervention.”

Part 1, Chapter 5: Public Safety, p. 98

“His residential suite sat high in the Near-North band, wrapped in layered civic skin like a protected organ.”

Part 1, Chapter 6: The First Thread, p. 119

“She took two steps down the clinic corridor.”

Part 2, Chapter 17: The Choir Arrives, p. 126

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