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Today’s cover was designed by Traci Moore Clay, based on a synopsis by participant Rachel Krueger:

Surface Bound by Rachel Krueger

It is the year 5770. The ice of the North Pole has completely melted, and all remaining land has been ravaged by pollution and mining. Humanity now resides in reinforced steel structures known as sea pods, deep below the ocean’s surface. People are kept separate from one another, fearing that real human interaction would bring destruction to a well-organized system. All they know beyond the walls of their rooms is produced by Human Interactive Virtual Experience Software, referred to as HIVE.

After a serial killer hacks into the HIVE Software and kills millions of people, Derek questions how safe it is to put his life in the hands of a machine. He escapes from his room to wander around the sea pods. The Engineers, who look over all of society, are interested to see how he experiences reality for the first time. The closer he gets to the surface and the more he learns about the system, the more nervous the Engineers get, until they eventually decide he has gone too far. They send out people to retrieve him, dead or alive.

Derek must make a decision—either spend the rest of his life in hiding, or head for the surface.

About the Designer

After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1993, Traci Moore Clay worked as an in-house designer for several local non-profits, and in a local design firm before founding Traci Moore Graphics (TMG), in 1997.

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