Author: Chad Deal
Publisher: Stay Strange Publishing
ISBN: 9781733334921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
What does a highly subjective virtual reality say about "reality" itself? What does identity mean when our lives are split between our "real" selves and our "virtual" selves? Which is more "real," the body or the avatar? Ketcel is an absurdist, hopeful-dystopian, psychedelic post-cyberpunk adventure, inspired by the half-truths of history, current events, and all-too-possible futures. Every year, thousands of Americans are smuggled through narcotunnels beneath the monolithic US/Mexico border wall to find affordable healthcare in Tijuana. Don Collins, a retired timeshare salesman from Florida, finds himself running for his life after becoming an involuntary contestant on a ludicrous cartel game show. Luna Teschner, a rookie livecast journalist living in Mexico City, is contacted by an anonymous source offering access to Tijuana's secret corporate gulags. Tijuana's Haitian police captain, Kervens Dessalines, has a taste for designer telepathics and garter belts, but he's willing to give up everything he's worked for to find the woman whose body he keeps appearing in while stoned. Don and Luna embark on a perilous journey through the desert wilds of borderland Baja, pursued by circuit-bent Border Patrol automatons, a geriatric cartel with a twisted sense of humor, and the constant need to captivate viewers. Along the way, they encounter unforgiving landscapes, rideshare pirates, deported aliens, noise punks, monster taco trucks, and the occasional hallucination to test the limits of their dumb luck and sanity. This story is in the tradition of authors such as William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, and Greg Egan, using an absurdist near-future to talk about current events, politics, border dynamics, and a little bit of philosophy. Think Black Mirror with a sense of humor, on a sturdy dose of psychedelics.
Ketcel
Author: Chad Deal
Publisher: Stay Strange Publishing
ISBN: 9781733334921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
What does a highly subjective virtual reality say about "reality" itself? What does identity mean when our lives are split between our "real" selves and our "virtual" selves? Which is more "real," the body or the avatar? Ketcel is an absurdist, hopeful-dystopian, psychedelic post-cyberpunk adventure, inspired by the half-truths of history, current events, and all-too-possible futures. Every year, thousands of Americans are smuggled through narcotunnels beneath the monolithic US/Mexico border wall to find affordable healthcare in Tijuana. Don Collins, a retired timeshare salesman from Florida, finds himself running for his life after becoming an involuntary contestant on a ludicrous cartel game show. Luna Teschner, a rookie livecast journalist living in Mexico City, is contacted by an anonymous source offering access to Tijuana's secret corporate gulags. Tijuana's Haitian police captain, Kervens Dessalines, has a taste for designer telepathics and garter belts, but he's willing to give up everything he's worked for to find the woman whose body he keeps appearing in while stoned. Don and Luna embark on a perilous journey through the desert wilds of borderland Baja, pursued by circuit-bent Border Patrol automatons, a geriatric cartel with a twisted sense of humor, and the constant need to captivate viewers. Along the way, they encounter unforgiving landscapes, rideshare pirates, deported aliens, noise punks, monster taco trucks, and the occasional hallucination to test the limits of their dumb luck and sanity. This story is in the tradition of authors such as William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, and Greg Egan, using an absurdist near-future to talk about current events, politics, border dynamics, and a little bit of philosophy. Think Black Mirror with a sense of humor, on a sturdy dose of psychedelics.
Publisher: Stay Strange Publishing
ISBN: 9781733334921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
What does a highly subjective virtual reality say about "reality" itself? What does identity mean when our lives are split between our "real" selves and our "virtual" selves? Which is more "real," the body or the avatar? Ketcel is an absurdist, hopeful-dystopian, psychedelic post-cyberpunk adventure, inspired by the half-truths of history, current events, and all-too-possible futures. Every year, thousands of Americans are smuggled through narcotunnels beneath the monolithic US/Mexico border wall to find affordable healthcare in Tijuana. Don Collins, a retired timeshare salesman from Florida, finds himself running for his life after becoming an involuntary contestant on a ludicrous cartel game show. Luna Teschner, a rookie livecast journalist living in Mexico City, is contacted by an anonymous source offering access to Tijuana's secret corporate gulags. Tijuana's Haitian police captain, Kervens Dessalines, has a taste for designer telepathics and garter belts, but he's willing to give up everything he's worked for to find the woman whose body he keeps appearing in while stoned. Don and Luna embark on a perilous journey through the desert wilds of borderland Baja, pursued by circuit-bent Border Patrol automatons, a geriatric cartel with a twisted sense of humor, and the constant need to captivate viewers. Along the way, they encounter unforgiving landscapes, rideshare pirates, deported aliens, noise punks, monster taco trucks, and the occasional hallucination to test the limits of their dumb luck and sanity. This story is in the tradition of authors such as William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, and Greg Egan, using an absurdist near-future to talk about current events, politics, border dynamics, and a little bit of philosophy. Think Black Mirror with a sense of humor, on a sturdy dose of psychedelics.
Developing Brain in Danger : Critical Periods of Vulnerability from In-utero to Adolescence
Author: Carla Cannizzaro
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889746178
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889746178
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Columbus Directory
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Category : Columbus (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Columbus (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Agriculture Yearbook
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
The Road to the Dictated Peace
Author: László Botos
Publisher:
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Category : Hungarians
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
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Category : Hungarians
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Kelly's Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers
Author:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 3738
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 3738
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Department Circular
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Automotive Simulation ’91
Author: Moshe R. Heller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364284586X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Welcome to Bavaria - Germany - to the THIRD EUROPEAN CARS/TRUCKS SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM. That Schliersee traditional workshop-type meeting is a follow-up to the first and the second symposia which took place in May 1984 and May 1989 respectively. The objective of gathering together is to cover most of the aspects of Automotive Mathematical Modelling and Simulation in theory and practice to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience between different national and international research groups in that field, taking into consideration that every seventh German employee is related to the automotive industry. This effect is also in power at least with the traditional Detroit (U.S.A.) Automotive Industries and the growing up Japanease as well. Futhermore, there is to strenghten the international contact between developers and users of modelling and simulation techniques considering the "new world order" started in 1991 with no borders between West and East affected by the Golf-War and followed up by the "open" European Community borders of 1992. VI The traditional International Conference jointly promoted by ASIMUTH - Applied Simulation Technology and some other members of the Society of Computer Simulaton created an interest to publish new projects including their results. A large number of contributed papers has been strictly examined and selected by the editorial commitee to guarantee a high international technical standard.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364284586X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Welcome to Bavaria - Germany - to the THIRD EUROPEAN CARS/TRUCKS SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM. That Schliersee traditional workshop-type meeting is a follow-up to the first and the second symposia which took place in May 1984 and May 1989 respectively. The objective of gathering together is to cover most of the aspects of Automotive Mathematical Modelling and Simulation in theory and practice to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience between different national and international research groups in that field, taking into consideration that every seventh German employee is related to the automotive industry. This effect is also in power at least with the traditional Detroit (U.S.A.) Automotive Industries and the growing up Japanease as well. Futhermore, there is to strenghten the international contact between developers and users of modelling and simulation techniques considering the "new world order" started in 1991 with no borders between West and East affected by the Golf-War and followed up by the "open" European Community borders of 1992. VI The traditional International Conference jointly promoted by ASIMUTH - Applied Simulation Technology and some other members of the Society of Computer Simulaton created an interest to publish new projects including their results. A large number of contributed papers has been strictly examined and selected by the editorial commitee to guarantee a high international technical standard.
Vocabulary-building Speller
Author: Alma Teresa Meyer
Publisher:
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Category : Spellers
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spellers
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Oral English in Secondary Schools
Author: William Palmer Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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