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In a universe ruled by the masters of the City-Planets, Dominic Cobb and his friends are on the run for more than their lives. Dom's wife, Mal, has fallen prey to modification psychosis after being wired-in by Cobol, the true power behind the Gate-City.
Dom is in a wilderness of despair at the loss of his wife. His companions, drawn from the highest and lowest castes of the Gate-City long before, and knowing how much they owe him, do what they can to keep things together. But moving to a borderland space station, while they regroup from the devastation of their world, may prove to herald the worst things they could ever have imagined -- among them an old war that has never been settled.
Past, present and future collide and annihilate, most of all for Eames, the Psion soldier who controlled time's passage, and Arthur, the City-Soldier who sold his abilities for the chance to kill the Psions in the name of the Gates.
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- Part 1 of Ready Materials
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"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
Saito, now carving out his empire of City-Planets after Cobol's destruction, has chosen Arthur and Eames to act as the public face for his new laws, based on the creed of tolerance, acceptance, and freely-given amnesty to all.
But his vision has not yet become a universal truth, and when rumors begin to emerge of another surviving Psion, Eames and Arthur begin to suspect that a new war, one against time and choice, may be coming. Arthur is convinced that Station Nine, the illegal space-station in Quadrant Thirty, will hold the answers. Eames thinks he's about to unearth everything that should have died with the Psions. Neither of them have considered that this might just be one and the same thing.
There is only time, said a dying Mal on Cobol. But time's the one thing they're all running out of.
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- Part 2 of Ready Materials