Name: When we Were Real: A Novel
Price: 508.00 ZAR
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Author: Daryl Gregory
ISBN: 9781668060049

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Physical Book

Author

Daryl Gregory

Publisher

Saga Press

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781668060049

When we Were Real: A Novel

Daryl Gregory (Author) · Saga Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "When we Were Real: A Novel"

From multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation. 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. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach. 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. When We Were Real is a tour-de-force and exploration of what really matters, even in an artificial world.

Daryl Gregory

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Daryl Gregory nació en Chicago (EE. UU.) en 1965 y se graduó en Lengua Inglesa y Teatro por la Universidad Estatal de Illinois en 1987. Es escritor a tiempo completo y ha publicado en las revistas más destacadas del género. Escribe también para el mercado del cómic. Vivió un tiempo en Oakland (California), y en la actualidad reside en su Chicago natal.

Su primer relato, “In the wheels”, se publicó en The Magazine of F&SF en 1990. Su primera novela, Pandemonium (2008), ganó el premio Crawford de Fantasía al mejor autor novel en el 2009 y quedó finalista del World Fantasy. The Devil’s Alphabet (2009) fue finalista del Philip K. Dick, y Vida y milagros de Stony Mayhall (2011), elegida por la Library Journal entre las mejores del año. Afterparty (2014) fue finalista del Campbell y del Lambda Literary Award, y la novela corta Estamos todos de puta madre (2014) obtuvo el World Fantasy y el Shirley Jackson, y quedó finalista del Nebula. La extraordinaria familia Telemacus (2017) está siendo adaptada a televisión. Su último título publicado es la novela corta The Album of Dr. Moreau (2021).

Completan su bibliografía la novela juvenil Harrison Squared (2015), de la que anuncia dos continuaciones, y la colección de relatos Unpossible and Other Stories (2011). Como guionista, ha escrito Dracula: The Company of Monsters (2010), en colaboración con Kurt Busiek; Planet of the Apes (2011), para boom! Studios, y la novela gráfica Secret Battles of Genghis Khan (2013), para IDW.

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