In the near future, mixed reality is more than a mind trip...
What if you could ride a real flying jetbike in an exciting race through fantastic virtual worlds?
What if you could connect your mind to the cloud for some heart-pounding vicarious thrills?
Interested?
Get in the car.
Echo Chamber Media dominates the information and entertainment feeds in Smart City, and does so for the exclusive benefit of a multinational eMind called Cosmic. When Lucid joins a team in a mixed-reality tournament that could rid the feeds of ECM's propaganda, she sets off a chain of events that puts everyone in the city at risk if they lose.
Will Lucid win the game? Vanquish the villain? Change the world? And get her shot at living happily ever after? Will the local culture jammers prevail over the oppressive corporate messaging of division and defeat?
It becomes a race to the finish when the greatest threat of all steps into the arena and challenges Lucid to her very core.
Will she be ready to see with clarity beyond the illusions that obscure her world?
Contains wholehearted heroes, cartoonishly crazed villains, hopepunk futurism, good trouble, and big grin fun! If books like Ready Player One, Trouble and Her Friends, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash give you a rush because of the virtual reality, amusing plots, and enjoyable characters, then Clarity or Delusion may have some thrills for you! If you enjoy movies with a heavy dose of cyberspace, such as Tron, The Matrix, Free Guy, and Ready Player One, then Clarity or Delusion has a whole other world to show you. We're talking science fiction with dystopian action-adventure and cyberpunk vibes, topped off with some triumphant feels.
Each Hopepunks novel is a complete standalone story that arrives at a satisfying conclusion. The main character in each book does not continue into the next one, because their hero's journey is now finished. However, all the books share a common story world, some recurring characters, and a similar plot structure with a similar set of main characters. More of the same, yet different, as each story explores a unique theme and the impact of an associated technology on our present and potential future society.
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