2 Giveaways and Excerpt deepFreak by Mars Dumont
Title: deepFreak
Author: Mars Dumont
Published: Jan. 6. 2015
Genre: Fantasy/ Science Fiction
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A magical mystery tour of virtual reality and beyond. Love, politics, conspiracy, and fluctuating space-time coordinates all come to a head when a huge solar flare disrupts the event horizon between parallel universes.
Living in simulated reality, SIM, is all the rage in the mid twenty-first century. But just when it seems that illusion has triumphed and Reality has become irrelevant, Reality throws a curve ball.
Audrey is a SIMdesigner and an artPrank hacktivist. When her friend Dano disappears, Audrey is forced into the gritty world of Real to find him. People disappear all the time in this dystopian near future. But then there are Type III disappearances, so when the young Milan also vanishes, but this time right before Audrey’s eyes, the quest for the disappeared takes a whole new turn and Audrey finds herself unwillingly thrust on a bizarre existential odyssey. Real? SIM? Or hallucination? Nothing is what it seems.
Meanwhile, Milan wakes floating in midair before the floor suddenly comes up and crashes hard into him. He looks around and at first the room does nothing. Then it wakes up. Myllan is on the other side, a place where people meet in Astral, not SIM, where luminescent mushrooms grow in the snow, and the weather knows what you are thinking.
Excerpt from: Chapter 1 Switch and gRazer
Audrey and Nina liked meeting here, dangling their legs off this unknown digital dock someplace, somewhere, on an unknown digital lake, wriggling their toes in the spectral water. An unforgiving white light reflected off the waves and over-exposed their faces like some faded bleached-out memory. A first version eyeVid freeware, it was now on some long forgotten and discarded netWorld by-way. Nobody remembered it. No one else came anymore. It was now their private SIMlounge. They’d been hanging here, just the two of them, since they were SIM enraptured kids playing with their very first eyeVids.
Mars:
Mars
was born in Poona, India. His father was a biologist, and research
grants took his family to Mexico City, Silicone Valley, Stockholm,
and finally New York City. After graduating from the Bronx High
School of Science, Mars traveled around Europe and spent time in
London and Prague. He finished his undergraduate studies at Columbia
College, with a major in art history and a minor in physics, and then
got a Masters degree at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture.
Mars then spent many years doing architecture as a day job and
playing electric guitar (for The Shameless Sycophants, Dark Blue and
Linoleum Blownapart) at night, in clubs ranging from CBGB’s to the
Knitting factory. Mars holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and an
Elder Brother rank in Tiger Claw Kung Fu. Mars Dumont speaks three
languages: Czech, Spanish and English. Remaining creative is, as far
as Mars is concerned, the most important thing in life.
Venus’
unique style took form in New York City with summers on Block Island
under the supervision of her advertising mad man art director father
and her gourmet cook mother. Their home was a gathering place for
artists and intellectuals. As a child she wrote and illustrated
her own books. Venus’ affinity for art and design eventually took
her to Italy where she studied for a number of years. Although she
has lived and worked as a designer in New York City for most of her
adult life, she still retains close ties with friends in Florence and
a love of everything Italian. Venus has a soft spot for Italian
style anarchy and humanist centered dissidents. She also likes
to dabble in the mysteries of Astrology and Tarot and draws on the
archetypes to develop the characters in her books.
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