Equimedian - by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines, scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection, when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his life in order. Except change is exactly what's happening to those around him. His roommate's personality suddenly shifts. Jill, his closest single friend, retroactively has a long-term partner. And why doesn't anyone remember what a wristplex is? Disoriented by these alterations, and suffering from panic attacks and lapses in memory, Jason tries to convince his friends that something is off, and it might have to do with the enigmatic Progress Pilgrims--a mysterious order who can travel microseconds into the future. But if that wasn't enough, a flyer labeled only Equimedian leads Jason to a meditative self-improvement service that seems to know a little too much about Jason for comfort. With his walls closing in and nowhere else to turn, Jason must decide where and how to finally make a stand. If he does, he might just change the world--if the world doesn't change him first"--

Book Synopsis

Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his life in order.

Except change is exactly what's happening to those around him. His roommate's personality suddenly shifts. Jill, his closest single friend, retroactively has a long-term partner. And why doesn't anyone remember what a wristplex is?

Disoriented by these alterations, and suffering from panic attacks and lapses in memory, Jason tries to convince his friends that something is off, and it might have to do with the enigmatic Progress Pilgrims-a mysterious order who can travel microseconds into the future. But if that wasn't enough, a flyer labeled only EQUIMEDIAN leads Jason to a meditative self-improvement service that seems to know a little too much about Jason for comfort.

With his walls closing in and nowhere else to turn, Jason must decide where and how to finally make a stand. If he does, he might just change the world-if the world doesn't change him first.

Review Quotes

"It's Don Quixote in a Möbius comic strip drawn by Philip K. Dick-for Kilgore Trout."

-Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author

"A cleverly Borgesian, reality-distorting premise enlivens this tribute to Silver Age SF."

-Kirkus Reviews

"[Equimedian] promises to reach many different types of reader with its invitation to traverse high tech, how reality is defined and represented, and the forces that would compromise, alter, or control it."

-Midwest Book Review

"Equimedian is a valentine to science fiction."

-Nancy Kress, multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author

"Equimedian is weird, intellectual, warm, warped, freaky and fannish. I loved it."

-Thoraiya Dyer, four-time Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning writer

"Equimedian is as mind-bending as it is urgent in what it has to say about the combinatory power of words to change the world."

-J.S. Breukelaar, author of The Bridge

"A Phildickian delight."

-Daryl Gregory, author of Spoonbenders

"A poignant slice of life, a surreal, slow-burn conspiracy thriller, and a love-and-loss letter to the science fiction genre."

-Rich Larson, author of Ymir and Tomorrow Factory

"Read it now, before everybody starts asking you if you've read Equimedian yet."

-Michael Marshall Smith, New York Times and internationally-bestselling novelist