The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia #1)
Author: Matthew Mather
Desc: What could be worse than letting billions die? In the near future to escape the crush and clutter of a packed and polluted Earth the world's elite flock to Atopia an enormous corporate-owned artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. It is there that Dr. Patricia Killiam rushes to perfect the ultimate in virtual reality: a program to save the ravaged Earth from mankind's insatiable appetite for natural resources. The Atopia Chronicles (Book 1 of the Atopia series) is the tale of mankind's dark slide across the apocalypse as humans and machines merge in a world teetering on the brink of ecological ruin.