Status
Available
Publication
Hydra Publications (2013), 238 pages
Description
When a quantum supercomputer's "reality simulator" program causes temporary insanity in its beta-testers, Lee Green rolls up his sleeves and dives into a virtual world to debug the problem. Only he discovers that place is more real than anyone imagined. He finds alternate versions of his friends in that mad science reality, their lives and relationships very different from those in the "real" world. Quantum entanglements become romantic entanglements as he meets his love again in each new dimension. Lee must save these other lives, decide which destiny is truly his, and what he's willing to sacrifice to get there.
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LibraryThing member SheilaDeeth
Eric Garrison’s Reality Check is a great fun read from start to end, blending hard science fiction, steampunk, and everyday geeks in a tale of parallel lives, computer animation and thrilling imagination. From the very first pages I feel like I’m back in college, hanging out with the wise in
The virtual realities of this supercomputer’s imagination have test subjects babbling insanities. But Lee’s sure he can figure it out—even more so when he finds he really rather likes the story he’s landed in when wearing the device. Then things start to go quite excitingly and interestingly wrong.
Told in the convincing voice of a modern-day genius engineer, with fantastic dialog, stunning plot twists, great characters, perfectly natural cultural references, and... well... whatever else you want, I’m sure it’s there... this is the sort of novel you really wish wouldn't end. And then it does. And then, though the ending is delightfully, enjoyably fulfilling, you desperately hope there’s going to be a sequel because it’s really that good!
Disclosure: I was lucky enough to get a free ecopy. Really lucky. Really good book!
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the common room, bemused on the edge of such fluid, fascinating, and fun conversations that I smile just to be nearby. And each page gets better. Still, what can I say without giving secrets away?The virtual realities of this supercomputer’s imagination have test subjects babbling insanities. But Lee’s sure he can figure it out—even more so when he finds he really rather likes the story he’s landed in when wearing the device. Then things start to go quite excitingly and interestingly wrong.
Told in the convincing voice of a modern-day genius engineer, with fantastic dialog, stunning plot twists, great characters, perfectly natural cultural references, and... well... whatever else you want, I’m sure it’s there... this is the sort of novel you really wish wouldn't end. And then it does. And then, though the ending is delightfully, enjoyably fulfilling, you desperately hope there’s going to be a sequel because it’s really that good!
Disclosure: I was lucky enough to get a free ecopy. Really lucky. Really good book!
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Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0615926142 / 9780615926148