Part of the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who spin-off fiction, but mostly disconnected from the rest of the series. The first sequel of Gibson's Neuromancer, the novel continues themes around cyberspace and introduces a computerized device called an Aleph which contains an advanced version of cyberspace that appears as a simulated reality to those that "jack" into it, as well as to digital entities that reside within it.īy the end of the story it is revealed that whatever happens in the story is really beyond the End of Time and that the Universe, the Earth and all of the consciousness that ever existed are really being preserved in a computer-like simulation known as the Archive. Eventually he discovers that the town and all of the people in it are being subjected to an illusion created by the fight between two cosmic beings. Even basic things such as street names are different.
One reviewer rated the story "A+" and praised "the central mysteries which Vinge so very skillfully unwraps for you over the course of the story itself." Ī man goes to visit the town in which he spent his early childhood, only to find that he does not recognize anything or anyone. This story was reprinted in several anthology collections, won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella and was nominated for the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella. The characters come to doubt their own reality. He wakes from the coma only to discover that his reality is inconsistent, and begins to wonder if he'd really woken at all. When you entered into a saga, you were not merely a passive observer, as in the crude entertainments or primitive times which Alvin had sometimes sampled." Īn Englishman is viciously beaten and injured late at night in the London Underground system. "Of all the thousands of forms of recreation in the city, these were the most popular. Several strands relating to virtual reality games and virtual objects, but then events in the "real world" lead the reader to conclude that the "real world" is a simulated reality which is accreting errors and anomalies. Kilgore Trout, an amateur science fiction writer, writes a story that mocks individualism by suggesting that there is only one human man and one God, and the rest of humanity are robots, made to test the man's reactions hence, a kind of simulated reality.
On a road trip, two characters set out from a post-apocalypse Wyoming town and encounter a succession of alternate realities, including one shrouded in opaque green fog, another luck-based political system, and it is suggested that these divergent alternate realities emerged to obstruct an alien invasion of Earth. Posits a religion according to which 'The Truth' is that our universe is virtual. A collection of related short stories, assembled as a novel, chronicling the life of a man and his daughter both pre and post- singularity.
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