NEW YORK 2055

For the first time, see inside the world of 2050s New York, a society where losing your job is a death sentence..

The intense, gritty world-building of the Alice Yu series grew out of my twenty-year architectural career. Long before I started the books I had researched, designed and drawn each piece of equipment that appears in the books.

At first I just threw those designs away, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop thinking about them. What are the revolutionary drive systems for aerial cars and how do they work? What smell does a centrifuge gun make after firing? How hot does an AI run? All day I would sketch buildings for architects, all evening I would draw 2050s New York until my eyes hurt.

For years these sketches and character studies remained hidden away in scrapbooks and folders, but now, for the very first time, this book shows some of those rare, exclusive details. How do Hoppers work? Why was the NYPD firearm based on a 1970s Polaroid camera? Who is Charles Takamatsu, the man who destroyed the world?

All of those questions, and more, are answered in New York, 2055...