Real Virtualities

by Maria Pellegrini

It is the era of Virrealism! The people of Future Earth discover the Past, play with the Present and invent the Future.
The main two characters, Siei and Dari, find them selves within a sophisticated virtual complex... "a unique piece of virtuality, a fantastic architectural labyrinth, a jewel of logical perfection." On learning of this, the General Commission, organized sorties of real and virtual exploration. After months of searching a realization grows of the possibility that the virtue-mechanism could have accidentally allowed entrance in to a hitherto unknown, secret game. The tension increases. If "knowledge becomes a secret, the knowledge-power triggers deadly consequences. The people of Future Earth had renounced the deification of the incomprehensible." When finally the third level of the game is conquered, everything becomes clear and it seems the game is over. But it is only the end of a new beginning since "the games should never end because then all would become an absolute silence and a large tedium, do you remember? To block the mechanisms of the game means to destroy the meaning of everything."
A climactic conclusion, reality it self will never be the same again.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2011

About the author

Maria Pellegrini, who also writes under the pen-name Lavirrealista, has been an indie publisher since 2010 exploring on the theme of technology and society of the future.