“...your phone rings. You look at the display with a sinking feeling: It's a particularly tedious LARP called SPOOKS, a real-time game in which you're acting your parts in a shadowy pan-European intelligence agency locked in a struggle for global hegemony with the forces of Chinese military intelligence, the Russian FSB, and, of course, the CIA.” From ’Halting State’ by Charles Stross. Published by Ace in 2007. Artwork was created using https://artbreeder.com Artbreeder app was created by Joel Simon https://www.joelsimon.net