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When we were real : a novel / Daryl Gregory.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668060049 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 442 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2025.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes book club questions. |
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| Subject: | Computer simulation > Fiction. Consciousness > Fiction. Reality > Fiction. Tour buses > Fiction. Virtual reality > Fiction. Voyages and travels > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Grego | 31681010413342 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Simon and Schuster
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 itâs the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North Americaâs Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlierâright 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. Thereâs 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 itâs 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 lastâa Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatarâwith everyone barreling toward the tourâs 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 âan addictive thriller packed with winning characters and big, brilliant ideasâ (Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Bright Sword and The Magicians trilogy) and an exploration of what really matters, even in an artificial world.
