Virtuality
Book One
by Ragnar Kroll
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Pub Date 2 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 6 Oct 2024
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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.
A Note From the Publisher
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
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798891323865 |
| PRICE | US$17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 368 |
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Featured Reviews
Jennifer J, Reviewer
Ragnar Kroll wrote a novel that really makes you work for it. This isn't one that can be quickly devoured in one sitting. It makes you think. It truly makes you contemplate a lot of things. You have to pay attention, and truly take it in. Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read the ARC of this one. I will be rereading it to see what I missed the first time around.
Kathryn M, Reviewer
I really enjoyed this as a opening chapter and thought it worked well as a scifi novel. The ideas in the novel was terrifying and uses the robot perfectly for this setting. The world was interesting and had characters that I was expecting. Ragnar Kroll has a great overall story and can’t wait for more.
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