Humanity has gone into space. Spaceships are controlled through a neural interface, thanks to which operators can make complex decisions in microseconds. One of the operators survives a spaceship disaster while connected to a neural interface. He comes to his senses in a cramped room that looks like either a medical cell or a prison cell. He doesn't have amnesia, but what he remembers scares him much more than memory loss. "Rejection Syndrome" is an unusual psychological thriller in which the author poses difficult questions: what is human personality? How do we perceive ourselves, and how does the world perceive us? How objective is the concept of “I”? At the same time, philosophical problems are organically woven into intense and dynamic action - the military confrontation between Earth and Venus, the search for lost love...