Deep Dive
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2.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $6.99
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Publisher Description
When your reality shatters, what will you do to put it back together again?
Still reeling from the failure of his last project, videogame developer Peter Banuk is working hard to ensure his next game doesn’t meet the same fate. He desperately needs a win, not only to save his struggling company, but to justify the time he’s spent away from his wife and daughters.
So when Peter’s tech-genius partner offers him the chance to beta-test a new state-of-the-art virtual reality headset, he jumps at it. But something goes wrong during the trial, and Peter wakes to find himself trapped in an eerily familiar world where his children no longer exist.
As the lines between the real and virtual worlds begin to blur, Peter is forced to reckon with what truly matters to him. But can he escape his virtual prison before he loses his family forever?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Game Grumps | Whole New Virtual World | Headset Havoc | Lost and Found ]
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Until a rushed conclusion, this nightmarish sci-fi thriller, Walters's debut, is powered successfully by a father's fear of losing his family. Video game developer Peter Banuk spends far too much time away from his wife and children as he obsessively finalizes his new game, Starflung, following the failure of an earlier one, Scorchfell. With help from his tech mogul best friend, Bradley Moss, Banuk plans to add VR to the game, promising "full sensory immersion." But a trial of the Deep Dive VR headset leaves Banuk disoriented and distressed, awakening to find that Scorchfell was a great success and Bradley's been dead for over a year. More horrifying, his two school-age daughters, Evie and Cassie, are missing, and his wife, Alana, doesn't remember them existing, explaining that they were just two characters in Scorchfell. Banuk's anguish is palpable as he searches for any proof that his children were real, despite nagging fears that he could be suffering from false memory syndrome. The ultimate explanation, depending on clichéd villains and some high-tech gizmos, is rather perfunctory, but the bulk of the story is convincing due to Banuk's panicky love for his wife and daughters. Walters doesn't stick the landing, but he pulls off some emotional entertainment on the way there.
Customer Reviews
Great book!
Great fast paced read!