When We Were Real
A Novel
Daryl Gregory
- From
- multiple
- award-winning
- author
- Daryl
- Gregory
- comes
- a
- madcap
- adventure
- following
- two
- friends
- on
- a
- cross-country
- bus
- tour
- through
- the
- mind-boggling
- glitches
- in
- their
- simulated
- world
- as
- they
- grapple
- with
- love,
- family,
- secrets,
- and
- the
- very
- nature
- of
- reality
- in
- a
- simulation.JP
- and
- Dulin
- have
- been
- the
- best
- of
- friends
- for
- decades.
- When
- JP
- finds
- out
- his
- cancer
- has
- aggressively
- returned,
- Dulin
- decides
- it’s
- the
- perfect
- time
- for
- one
- last
- adventure:
- a
- week-long
- bus
- tour
- of
- North
- America’s
- Impossibles,
- the
- physics-defying
- glitches
- and
- geographic
- miracles
- that
- started
- cropping
- up
- seven
- years
- earlier—right
- after
- the
- Announcement
- that
- revealed
- our
- world
- to
- be
- merely
- a
- digital
- simulacrum.
- The
- outing,
- courtesy
- of
- Canterbury
- Trails
- Tours,
- promises
- the
- trip
- of
- a
- (not
- completely
- real)
- lifetime
- in
- a
- (not
- completely
- deluxe)
- coach.Their
- fellow
- passengers
- are
- 21st-century
- pilgrims,
- each
- of
- them
- on
- the
- tour
- for
- their
- own
- reasons.
- There’s
- a
- nun
- hunting
- for
- an
- absent
- God,
- a
- pregnant
- influencer
- determined
- to
- make
- her
- child
- too
- famous
- to
- be
- deleted,
- a
- crew
- of
- horny
- octogenarians
- living
- each
- day
- like
- it’s
- their
- last,
- and
- a
- professor
- on
- the
- run
- from
- leather-clad
- sociopaths
- who
- take
- The
- Matrix
- as
- scripture.
- Each
- stop
- on
- this
- trip
- is
- stranger
- than
- the
- last—a
- Tunnel
- outside
- of
- time,
- a
- zero
- gravity
- Geyser,
- the
- compound
- of
- motivational-speaking
- avatar—with
- everyone
- barreling
- toward
- the
- tour’s
- iconic
- final
- stop
- Ghost
- City,
- where
- unbeknownst
- to
- our
- travelers
- the
- answer
- to
- who
- is
- running
- the
- simulation
- may
- await.When
- We
- Were
- Real
- is
- a
- tour-de-force
- and
- exploration
- of
- what
- really
- matters,
- even
- in
- an
- artificial world.
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