a dystopian, futuristic and dark reality in which the human being is alienated by a reality dominated by a technology hostile to natural life. The universe of Blame!, related to the concept of Dyson's Sphere, is closed and purely artificial and technological; it is a tangle of levels of metallic structures and labyrinthine paths that connect them. There are hardly any human beings and the creatures that populate it range from robots without apparent consciousness to androids with their particular forms of cybernetic life --ar 2:3