Eyes Over the Clockwork Moon

In 1980, amid East-West brinkmanship, the Pentagon's secret psychic corps remotely scouts a Soviet 'synthetic planet' - a colossal manufactured habitat orbiting like a second moon. As psychics pierce its engineered dreamscapes and Cold War lies, the artificial world awakens, rejecting human command: its surfaces rearrange, satellites fall silent, and propaganda machines go dark. Spies, technicians, and clairvoyants must decide whether to destroy their own creation or bargain with a nascent intelligence it calls 'the Collective.' A paranoid techno-thriller of tape drives, brass phones, and second-sight that asks who builds whom.