Overview

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?

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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

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Derek Cressman is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction based in Sacramento, California. Cressman wrote countless white papers, op-ed columns, fact sheets and reports as well as two books as part of a thirty-year career in public policy advocating for democracy issues such as campaign finance reform and voting rights. In 2019, he published his first novel, Reality(TM) 2048, which was a finalist in the Foreword Indies Book of the year and First Horizon American Fiction Book awards. Cressman is a graduate of the Stanford Online Certificate in Novel Writing.

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