In a city where everything connects, the last thing you’re allowed to disconnect is yourself.

When Philip Sheridan arrives in a meticulously ordered city-state at the height of a global pandemic, he expects efficiency, safety, and a brief quarantine before reuniting with the woman he loves. What he finds instead is a place that runs too smoothly—where technology anticipates needs before they’re spoken, and compliance is effortless, automatic… unquestioned.

Philip is an outsider in more ways than one. He distrusts devices, resists digital dependence, and clings to physical reality in a society that has quietly moved beyond it. As his body recovers from the strains of travel and illness, subtle changes begin to surface—sensations he can’t explain, coincidences that feel rehearsed, and a growing sense that privacy, choice, and even identity operate by unfamiliar rules.

Reassured by calm voices, impeccable systems, and the promise of collective safety, Philip is drawn deeper into the city’s logic—where progress is seamless, convenience absolute, and resistance increasingly unthinkable.

Appopolis Now is a chilling work of near-future science fiction that explores surveillance, bodily autonomy, and the seductive comfort of surrendering control. Stylish, unsettling, and sharply contemporary, it asks a terrifying question: when technology becomes heaven, what must humanity give up to enter?

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