Twenty years after the Patriotic War, Detective Sara Fidelia is summoned to investigate a mutilated Mort left at South Gate, just outside the walled city. All the clues point to a Perp from the rebel town of Excursion, miles away on the other side of the river. She sets off across the ruined city, and through encounters with mysterious strangers slowly realizes she’s a pawn in a much larger game. A benevolent dictatorship controls the world, enforcing the teachings of the charismatic Sensei. Determined to heal the environmental damage of the past century, it keeps the impoverished citizens pacified with an addictive drink called Pleasant Planet. 2050 is a murder mystery set in a post-apocalyptic landscape – recognizably the Vancouver area – reduced by climate change, war and pandemic to a fraction of its former size.
