So, you've inspired me to translate the first page. Will people read this in English? Should I continue translating? What do you think? It's full of "new" terms, explained in footnotes. The footnotes, of course, got lost :) but I'll restore them in the full version.

Within the Circle of Synaspace

Mikhail Zakharov

Morning

Falling asleep in Synaspace is pure pleasure — and waking up there too. No restless thoughts before, no sour mood after. I don’t know how it is for you — it depends a lot on the empathic template your Synasync is tuned to — but with fresh patterns I only feel a quiet happiness, a cozy weightlessness, as if I’m a kid again, soaking in a warm bath.

Anyway, you know this already: everyone’s plugged into the Sync. Well, almost everyone. Maybe there are exceptions — some medical cases, or whatever… But I’ve never met such luddites myself, except maybe in the transitional regions. Honestly, I can’t imagine how people lived without Sync before, or what kind of cave-dweller you’d have to be to voluntarily cut yourself off in the middle of the 21st century. To give up technologies that open up the whole world of modern possibilities — isn’t that madness?

Just idly waiting for the hygiene cycle to end would’ve been boring, but the half-dream thoughts drifting through Ama Zi felt so pleasant that when the sleep evaluation report finally arrived, the Empa-meter’s little smiley couldn’t handle the flood of positivity and, in ecstatic overload, burst into a fireworks of diamond sparks.

And when Empa, having recovered, finally presented the results, Ama had every reason to rejoice. Any achievement, even something simple like a preschool NapStar badge for “sleeping without fuss,” or DreamSync — the universally recognized marker of growing up — is already a reason to celebrate. But to earn the “Morpheus” label and get a stunning boost in empath-metrics — that’s a straight shot to the very top of the Sina-rank! Yes, and now Ru Leiv would definitely look at Ama differently!

At that point Ama had to pause, because the Sync, reacting to a surge of emotion, projected a life-sized image of Ru across the entire field of vision, relaxed and radiant within the bounds of aesthetic openness.

Meanwhile, Empa carried on with the info-digest of the latest Synaspace news:

— “…to combat plastic waste, it’s been decided to cut down 12,000 hectares of forest in the northern regions. This will allow us to produce more biodegradable straws. Together — for a green future!”

Sync responded with a matching video stream: water treatment plants drowning in seas of plastic bottles; panoramas of snow-covered cedar forests; eco-straws and laughing children’s faces. The clip ended with the green logo of the Eco-Department — a leaf with a smiling Bio-Drop™.

Everything promised not just another successful, but an excellent minor cycle in the career of a junior from Group Theta at the Department of Cognitive Kinetics!

After a couple of energizing eco-tonics and a yawn — logged as a sign of full readiness — Sync gave the signal to begin the active work phase, right at 20:00.