False Eden

by William Bowden

He calls them horsemen—revelation engines that can conjure up dream worlds from vast swathes of encrypted data. But are they really dream worlds, or are they something else altogether? For Cydian fears that he has created his own personal Sandman, one that now stalks him with nightmares.

He’s bet everything on a new way to harvest highly sensitive personal data from billions of people, a game changer set to transform the world. But there’s a problem—the data predicts a global calamity to be underway, one that simply just isn’t there.

With the company teetering on the edge of a financial abyss, he needs to find the problem by hacking the data, something that should be impossible, given the quantum encryption protecting it.

The horsemen, and their dream worlds,are the only way in.

130 pages, ebook

First published December 6, 2022

About the author

William Bowden is a British science fiction author with a predilection for the general weirdness of the Universe, what it means to be human, and how the two might be connected.

He lives in the west of England.

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Reviews

[David Pospisil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Innovative and well written.
Perfect pace and nicely edited.
Environmentalists gone wild.

[Jefrois · Rating 1 out of 5]

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This book is just too smart for me.

I can NOT follow it.

So I quit reading it around page 11.

[Heather Samsa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Weird - Lots of twists and turns

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

confusing

Very confusing this story led a meandering path to nowhere for me. The line itself lost somewhere, this is beyond dystopian