When we were real : a novel / Daryl Gregory.
Summary:
"JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it's the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America's Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier--right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. Their fellow passengers are 21st-century pilgrims, each of them on the tour for their own reasons. There's a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, a crew of horny octogenarians living each day like it's their last, and a professor on the run from leather-clad sociopaths who take The Matrix as scripture. Each stop on this trip is stranger than the last--a Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatar--with everyone barreling toward the tour's iconic final stop Ghost City, where unbeknownst to our travelers the answer to who is running the simulation may await." --Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668060049
- ISBN: 1668060043
- Physical Description: 464 pages: illustrations; 23 cm
- Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2025.
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Subject: | Reality > Fiction. Consciousness > Fiction. Computer simulation > Fiction. Virtual reality > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. Novels. |
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