Future.Con
A Literary Thriller of the Near Future
by Nowick Gray
A cyber-wise parable of self-realization,
about relationship, virtual reality and the nature of choice.
"My
screen is waiting, the eye is open and hungry…"
What is Future.Con?
It's a psychological mystery; a literate
techno-thriller; a spiritual quest embedded in a hacker's
coy game.
Welcome to every computer programmer's nightmare:
the virus that shows up on the user side of the interface.
In this stylish journey into the near future,
Joe Norton falls prey to a force that threatens to tear
his Philadelphia life apart--from the inside out.
With instructions to kill and
a baffling menu of choices, Norton faces a rocky ride through
a series of alternate realities, at the whim of an invisible
adversary. Never mind that one shaky relationship gives
way to another, or that his job is jeopardized by a corporate
buyout. Norton has another assignment to take care of, as
he discovers that virtual reality is not confined to hardware.
Destination: the home brain.
Like
the novels of Crichton, Straub and Eco (or the video hits
The Truman Show and The Game), Future.Con
will appeal to readers who enjoy a compelling story with
a heady concept and a speculative edge.
What
the reviewers say about Nowick Gray's fiction:
"Bradbury-esque,
without the schmaltz" (writer and critic John Robert
Columbo).
"Standout
fiction . . . impressionistic and very real." (James A.
Lee, Scavenger's Newsletter)
"Captures
so much mood and evokes a strange tension." (Donni
Hakanson, author of The Dreamtime Oracle)
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About
the author: Nowick Gray, born in 1950 within dreaming
distance of Joe Norton's Philadelphia, encountered his first
computer at Dartmouth College in 1968. The dream car appeared
some twenty years later, a haunting now put to rest. Future.Con
is his first published novel.
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