Sands of Steel

The year is 2006. The age of sophisticated adult prestige television — still mostly personal dramas and crime stories — is on the rise. Researchers at an experimental branch of a well-known cable TV studio have been tasked with exploring how other potent genre elements might be worked into the formula, namely fantasy and sci-fi. But the project they are about to begin will do far more than spawn a successful show — it will threaten television itself. Armed with the finest computers of the day, the researchers begin workshopping concepts for new shows and technologies that could speed up their ...