After the Blahpocalypse, citizens grow to resent the coddling of smart tech, seeking the distinctly tactile, sweaty, gritty experience of the real. One place offering a respite from pervasive technology is Chicago’s film noir theme park, Circa.
Circa provides a full-immersion world as it would have been anytime between 1938 and 1959—the classic American film noir period. Visitors are “extras” and go through wardrobe, changing into their period costume, removing all contemporary tech to preserve the verisimilitude.
To protect that fictive world of living back in time, Circa employs a handful of police, plain clothes cops “playing” Sam Spade in the park, who work for the security department which is the last rung on the worst ladder in the least popular division of the Chicago Police Department: Continuity.
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