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When we were real : a novel / Daryl Gregory.

Gregory, Daryl, (author.).

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.
Subject: Reality > Fiction.
Consciousness > Fiction.
Computer simulation > Fiction.
Virtual reality > Fiction.
Genre: Science fiction.
Novels.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Hood River County Library FIC GREGORY (Text) 33892101034248 Adult New Books Checked out 04/30/2025

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