PsyBot: A Novel of Virtual Reality
About this ebook
With instructions to kill and a baffling menu of choices, programmer Joe Norton's all-too-ordinary life in Philadelphia is coming apart at the seams. Is the only way out, to go further in?
Never mind that one shaky relationship gives way to another, or that his job is jeopardized by a corporate buyout. Norton has another mission to attend to as he discovers that virtual reality is not confined to hardware.
A visionary dive into into the slipstream of emerging transhumanist technologies and agendas, PsyBot exposes a dark underworld of mind-control black ops.
Reviewers find this noir thriller “surreal, bizarre”; featuring “fascinating, three-dimensional characters” and “beautiful, unique prose, blurring genre and literary fiction.”
PsyBot explores the limits of free will, personal transformation and the “very nature of reality in this post-digital age.”
About the author
Nowick Gray had the good fortune to work and play on some of the first time-sharing computers, at Dartmouth College (home of the BASIC programming language) in 1968. A fascination has endured with what Joe Norton would call “the computer mind.”
Nowick currently makes his home on Salt Spring Island, BC, where he writes fiction and creative nonfiction. He also works as a freelance copyeditor. When not engaged with words, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, and playing African drums.
