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Salvador is thrown into battle and intense laser fire. He doesn't know how he got here or why, and that's just one of his problems. He's been experiencing a sort of dimensional schizophrenia, jumping into bizarre scenes at any point in time. Is the universe messing with him, interfering with his only goal, to bring his wife Jemma out of her coma? He grows sure Jemma is trying to communicate a solution from her dimension, trying to tell him how to save her, to bring her back round. She tells him to look for signs, find a pattern, and soon he does. His dad's old car, a song, a demon, and Camille, his lost best friend from school. He learns Jemma was the teacher on going-home-duty when a little girl, Ashlen, vanished a few months ago. Why didn't tell him about Ashlen? He becomes convinced it's a clue. The school is quizzed, the police are quizzed but still no answers. His mission races on when he learns they'll turn off Jemma's life support in seven days. What if Jemma's goal is not to save herself, but something else? Eventually he realises it's to save Ashlen, to ease her guilt, allow her to recover. That's the link, here is the reason for the pattern: save Ashen and that will bring Jemma round. Between dimensions and interactions with Jemma and Camille, from a VR game, space travel and a distant planet awaiting the its foretold enlightenment, Salvador knows what he must do. Nothing is as it seems, and the invasive truth is coming.

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'Entertaining and consistently fast-paced, An Unfortunate Dimension is a multi-layered escapade which brings together a range of different sub-plots, culminating in a satisfying and unexpected ending. Given the popularity of titles such as Ready Player One and Ender's Game, there is certainly a market for fiction about virtual reality games with dramatic consequences. What sets An Unfortunate Dimension apart is that the virtual reality is centred around the specifics of the protagonist's life. Rather than being set in a dystopia where the threats are energy crises or alien invasions, it has the relatability factor of being set in the present, with a software developer in a race against time to rescue his wife from a coma. It combines a considerable number of different threads and I would just like to reiterate how much I enjoyed the twist at the end.' Sarah-Jayne Carver Reader for Faber & Faber, Pushkin Press and Madeleine Milburn

'Entertaining and consistently fast-paced, An Unfortunate Dimension is a multi-layered escapade which brings together a range of different sub-plots, culminating in a satisfying and unexpected ending. Given the popularity of titles such as Ready Player One and Ender's Game, there is certainly a market for fiction about virtual reality games with dramatic consequences. What sets An Unfortunate Dimension apart is that the virtual reality is centred around the specifics of the protagonist's life. Rather than being set in a dystopia where the threats are energy crises or alien invasions, it has the relatability factor of being set in the present, with a software developer in a race against time to rescue his wife from a coma. It combines a considerable number of different threads and I would just like to reiterate how much I enjoyed the twist at the end.' Sarah-Jayne Carver Reader for Faber & Faber, Pushkin Press and Madeleine Milburn

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