Description
Combining the comic absurdity of Stanislaw Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub with the inventive worldbuilding of Philip K. Dick and the elegiac longing of Raymond Chandler, The Halter is a debut sci-fi novel that fuses cyber-noir, psychological suspense, and high-concept speculation in a breakneck search for truth inside a utopian metaverse on the verge of collapse
In a world where virtual addiction kills, Kennedy Stark is paid to pull the plug. A professional halter-part detective, part counselor-he trawls the world's darkest surrogate-reality feeds in search of the lost. When he isn't working, he's dreaming of a one-way ticket to Mars, where a new colony has been established as a hopeful alternative to an Earth in the early stages of climate collapse.
One evening, after a botched rescue attempt, a mysterious client offers Kennedy a tantalizing new case: brilliant software engineer Delia Walsh, who Kennedy fell in love with years ago, has disappeared inside a surrogate reality project called The Forum. Entering under an assumed identity, Kennedy finds a simulation unlike any other. The Forum bills itself as a tool for cutting-edge scientific research and radical philosophical investigations, but the signs of its corruption are everywhere. As Kennedy investigates, he learns Delia had been working on a new simulation that could upend The Forum's primary purpose, and that even in this prurient playground for the super wealthy, the dangers are very real.
About the Author
Darby McDevitt is a writer and game developer best known for his work on the Assassin's Creed series of video games. He served as lead writer for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and as narrative director for the forthcoming Assassin's Creed: Codename Hexe. His short fiction has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jeopardy, Griffel, and In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing. McDevitt is a dual citizen of the US and Canada and lives in Montreal.
Book Information
ISBN 9798895150887
Author Darby McDevitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Diversion Books
Publisher Diversion Books
Weight(grams) 239g
In a world where virtual addiction kills, Kennedy Stark is paid to pull the plug. A professional halter-part detective, part counselor-he trawls the world's darkest surrogate-reality feeds in search of the lost. When he isn't working, he's dreaming of a one-way ticket to Mars, where a new colony has been established as a hopeful alternative to an Earth in the early stages of climate collapse.
One evening, after a botched rescue attempt, a mysterious client offers Kennedy a tantalizing new case: brilliant software engineer Delia Walsh, who Kennedy fell in love with years ago, has disappeared inside a surrogate reality project called The Forum. Entering under an assumed identity, Kennedy finds a simulation unlike any other. The Forum bills itself as a tool for cutting-edge scientific research and radical philosophical investigations, but the signs of its corruption are everywhere. As Kennedy investigates, he learns Delia had been working on a new simulation that could upend The Forum's primary purpose, and that even in this prurient playground for the super wealthy, the dangers are very real.
About the Author
Darby McDevitt is a writer and game developer best known for his work on the Assassin's Creed series of video games. He served as lead writer for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and as narrative director for the forthcoming Assassin's Creed: Codename Hexe. His short fiction has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jeopardy, Griffel, and In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing. McDevitt is a dual citizen of the US and Canada and lives in Montreal.
Book Information
ISBN 9798895150887
Author Darby McDevitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Diversion Books
Publisher Diversion Books
Weight(grams) 239g
