Mid-this-century, Käthe Lurie will be a celebrated civil engineering wunderkind, credited with saving both Long Island and Nantucket from the sea. She will also be a gaming addict, hooked on the world’s most popular unregulated platform, LucidDream™.

On a three-day cross-country trip to meet her new investors, Käthe’s ‘habit’ will expose her most-prized avatar, Julian Maas, to a freedom-fighting femme fatale named Bel, who has somehow managed to outlive her own creator. A torrid affair ensues, fueled by deception and by the limitless possibilities of the ‘Dream. Set against the crumbling backdrop of Käthe’s journey through the once-United States, the contrast could not be more clear, or the conclusion more tempting. As California nears, Käthe will be forced to choose: whether to keep salvaging the world she lives in, or roll the dice and pioneer the next.

Shades of Huxley, Pynchon, and Le Guin, LucidDream™ is a dark, comical, hallucinogenic meditation on the moment where we find ourselves right now–stepping through the looking glass into a hybrid realm of cyber- and bio-technologies that may well save us yet, or spell the end of life as we know it.

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