About the book: 2014 / The world has changed, whether you like it or not. You can adapt and even get a good job: choose a Gift in exchange for a ghostly promise to work off a debt after death, set a creepy half-dead creature on an annoying neighbor, or receive new flesh in return for an old body, battered by excesses. You can leave silently, hide in a dense forest or swamps, where the descendants of ancient hunters found shelter, you can rebel and put your own life on the line. But sooner or later the living gods will come into play. They do not ask the consent of those who are able to play on their side. They just choose. You.