22nd Century America is crumbling from relentless climate change, collapsing supply chains and recurrent pandemics. Brash cities like New New York are built inland from their flooded originals.

Corporations struggle for ascendency while new quantum technology has leaked onto the streets and been repurposed by street witches ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”).

Large swathes of the population have been reduced to nomadic status, migrating in their RVs from one Park and Work to another, while the wealthy watch from the orbitals overhead. For the crew of the semi-legit landship, the Strega, they had hoped this job would be an easy one: get the cargo to St. Louis and a data package to flooded Manhattan.

But there’s something very odd about the cargo and the strain is beginning to tell on them. ...