Virtuality

Book One

by Ragnar Kroll

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Pub Date 2 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 6 Oct 2024

Atmosphere Press

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers | Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Description

Welcome to 2051, where “health” is maintained through mandated neuro-electromagnetics, and AI animatronic humanoids have covertly become self-aware.

The world boasts safety and freedom from crime, thanks to Directed Neuroplasticity Therapy and political unification under the World Council. However, a precocious teenager and her researcher father inadvertently discover dark side effects of the therapy, while a programmer's error unleashes a trio of self-aware animatronics upon the world.

As this unexpected turn threatens the hard-won stability of society, questions arise about how humanity will cope. What challenges will humanoid robots with superior intelligence pose, and how will our future society respond? In Virtuality: Book I by Ragnar Kroll, readers are immersed in the thrilling and terrifying world of the near future.

Welcome to 2051, where “health” is maintained through mandated neuro-electromagnetics, and AI animatronic humanoids have covertly become self-aware.

The world boasts safety and freedom from crime...

A Note From the Publisher

Ragnar Kroll lives in Northern California with his falcon, Jake. His hobbies include hunting with Jake, carving figures from driftwood, and listening to the sea. He is an enthusiastic reader of travelogues, of which his favorite is David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus. The Virtuality trilogy is his first published work: Book I: The Sailor Comes Home From the Sea, Book II: Hearts and Minds, Book III: Hello, World.

Ragnar Kroll lives in Northern California with his falcon, Jake. His hobbies include hunting with Jake, carving figures from driftwood, and listening to the sea. He is an enthusiastic reader of...

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A Note From the Publisher

Ragnar Kroll lives in Northern California with his falcon, Jake. His hobbies include hunting with Jake, carving figures from driftwood, and listening to the sea. He is an enthusiastic reader of travelogues, of which his favorite is David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus. The Virtuality trilogy is his first published work: Book I: The Sailor Comes Home From the Sea, Book II: Hearts and Minds, Book III: Hello, World.

Advance Praise

"This is a knockout. A novel that's as smart as it is compelling, that challenges our preconceptions while pulling us so deeply into its world. There's a strong identification with the characters in how we see what they see, just on the edge of our ability to comprehend it. Utterly fascinating and impossible to put down."

-- David Schiller, author of Guitar and The Little Book of Zen