All That We See or Seem
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Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at 14 as the "orphan hacker," is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer named Piers, whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly recreated at risk as she can’t walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.
Unraveling the real and unreal will lead Julia on an adventure that will take her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche. This is the first in a near-future science fiction thriller series.
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Schwieriger Read, Sprache sehr Tech-lastig
(Rezension in Englisch wegen Cross-Posting) I liked this book, but I also had a really though time with it. I’m mostly fluent in English even though it’s not my first language. I’ve read multiple books in English before and non of them gave me any trouble before this one. Reading this book has been HARD. I can’t quite put my finger on why. Especially the first 150 or so pages I’ve struggled through all the tech-talk. I’m not tech-savvy whatsoever, so I often wondered if I had trouble because I simple didn‘t know the words I was reading or if they are in fact made up. Because of this it was hard to follow the story and characters. It didn’t help that everything was very slow going. The book got much better and easier for me to read in the middle part! But I struggled again towards the ending. All in all it just took me a really long time to get through this read and I’m not really sure if I actually liked it or not.
Description
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at 14 as the "orphan hacker," is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer named Piers, whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly recreated at risk as she can’t walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees’ dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding his dreams in return for Elli.
Unraveling the real and unreal will lead Julia on an adventure that will take her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche. This is the first in a near-future science fiction thriller series.
Book Information
Posts
Schwieriger Read, Sprache sehr Tech-lastig
(Rezension in Englisch wegen Cross-Posting) I liked this book, but I also had a really though time with it. I’m mostly fluent in English even though it’s not my first language. I’ve read multiple books in English before and non of them gave me any trouble before this one. Reading this book has been HARD. I can’t quite put my finger on why. Especially the first 150 or so pages I’ve struggled through all the tech-talk. I’m not tech-savvy whatsoever, so I often wondered if I had trouble because I simple didn‘t know the words I was reading or if they are in fact made up. Because of this it was hard to follow the story and characters. It didn’t help that everything was very slow going. The book got much better and easier for me to read in the middle part! But I struggled again towards the ending. All in all it just took me a really long time to get through this read and I’m not really sure if I actually liked it or not.