When We Were Real

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Author: Daryl GregoryTitle: When We Were RealBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 464Release Date: 2025-04-01Details: 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 it's the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America's Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier-right 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. There's 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 it's 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 last-a Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatar-with everyone barreling toward the tour's 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 a tour-de-force and exploration of what really matters, even in an artificial world.EAN: 9781668060049Package Dimensions: Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.51898498518 Pounds, Width: 1.185 Inches Show more