- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Language:English
- Series Title:Zombies of Things
- Series Number:1
- Pages:320
- eBook ISBN:9798350963656
- Paperback ISBN:9798350963649
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Overview
In 2044, society is governed by The Machine—a powerful merger of Artificial Intelligence, Government, and Corporations, designed to maintain stability and sustainability. But when a mysterious virus emerges, widow Lucy Driscoll and her two daughters are forced to navigate the Metaverse, a vast collection of virtual worlds, to uncover the truth behind the looming Great Pandemic. As The Machine's heavy-handed response threatens to be more dangerous than the virus itself, the family must unite to separate reality from illusion in a world where survival depends on knowing the difference.
Description
It's the Great Pandemic of 2044. How would you know if it's real?
Special glasses, worn over the eyes, immerse people into a parallel reality known as the Metaverse—an addictive, dreamlike state that merges real-world images with digitally created ones. In a reimagined 2040s South Florida, widow Lucy Driscoll and her two daughters live orderly, post-suburban lives, split between the physical world and the artificial one their lenses present. But when a novel virus emerges to shatter that existence, they face a modern dilemma: how to distinguish reality from rumor.
As they travel together through the Metaverse, they discover that The Machine—a merger of Artificial Intelligence, Government, and Corporations, designed to keep society stable and sustainable—may pose a greater threat than the virus itself. Before a global pandemic lockdown takes hold, they must set aside family squabbles and craft a secret, clever plan to overcome forces seemingly beyond their control—all while under the mind-bending assault of deepfakes and misinformation.
In the future of humanity, separating fact from fiction will be a matter of life and death.
