BLAME!

The City has been growing for so long that no one inside it remembers open ground. Floors stack upon floors without end, split by chasms too deep to see across, and the machines that once built it now hunt the humans who still wander its corridors. Somewhere in this endless structure, humanity lost its link to the Netsphere, the network that once let people control the City, and with it any way of stopping the expansion. Killy, a silent traveller armed with a devastating Graviton Beam Emitter, is searching for one human who still carries the Net Terminal Gene. On the way he passes scattered settlements, cyborg hunters and the merciless Safeguard, and meets Cibo, a scientist whose body has been rebuilt more than once and whose knowledge may matter as much as Killy's weapon. Tsutomu Nihei, whose background is in architecture, tells the journey mostly through space and silence: vast stairwells, rusting bridges, long pages without a word and sudden bursts of violence. BLAME! is a landmark of cyberpunk manga, a lonely, hypnotic exploration for readers who like to get lost in a world.