Community

A genius IT specialist invents the "semantic internet" — a methodology of Web 3.0, and the "semantic" portal gives rise to an IT company with the commercial potential of Facebook. But in one of the communities that the new resource attracts, suddenly the topic of the Black Death appears — the most horrific epidemic in human history. And the participants of the community, without even noticing it, drown in the fog of the medieval plague. They are already seeing "plague doctors", Abracadabra — the demon of the plague, and the Plague Queen in reality. The infected community is killing people. But who launched the plague program, why, and how did the plague come into reality?

If you like, this is a genre novel: a mystical thriller about death via the internet stylized as an online forum. If you like — a detective about the brutal change of ownership in an IT corporation. If you like — a "sketch of morals" about provincials in the capital. But overall, "Community" is a dystopia about the transfer of online laws into offline. In a consumer society, aggregators themselves shape for a person a picture of the world — false but pleasant, and social networks, created to unite people, gradually separate them. This is the infamous "rise of the machines", and it has already begun.