Virtuality - by Derek Cressman (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

It's 2065 in Southern California. Virtuality's post-Orwellian, pre-Matrix satire is a near-future dystopia on the verge of collapse. When a mysterious hacker disrupts transmissions, four quirky misfits find out that the streaming infotainments of their customized MyndScreen(TM) brain implants have noxious side effects-not to mention the addictive free extruded soyalgent food that everyone's eating. Who will succumb to corporate commercialism on steroids? Who will survive the apocalypse?

Review Quotes

A post-modern tale that rings the alarm bells loud and clear. Reading Virtuality will make you take a personal inventory of the "infotainment" you consume. This story has stayed with me and continues to color my perception of recent events in the news. A must read for fans of speculative fiction, although this one hits pretty close to home.

-Tiffany Simpson, Book Haus

Cressman's Virtuality is above all else an exuberant excursion through a future that seems both bonkers and entirely plausible. In a world controlled by big corporations, virtuality and reality are on a collision course, and every character has to figure out how they fit into a society that appears monolithic but is hollow inside. This is a novel written for the modern brain, exhilarating, zippy, and insightful, all the while using the pace and vocabulary of virtual reality to skewer it. A trip to the future you don't want to miss!

-Julie Price Carpenter, author of The Last Train Out of Hell