Would appreciate feedback on this revised blurb for new novel Ever Sleep.
Raphael Lennon, thought dead after committing terrorist acts against The Eliot Group, an alliance of AI firms, has hidden in the California Sierra for four years. If found alive, the Group will “skin him and bury the quivering flesh in a coffin of salt.” When his soulmate Addy leaves camp to buy supplies but doesn't return, Raphael abandons caution and sets out to find her.
Raphael soon encounters the disturbing world that the Group has created. Using fungi as a neural substitute, Eliot has revived dead individuals as mobile cyborgs. But the newly minted humanoids suffer from the inability to dream, leading to comas after a few weeks of human-like activities. The unconscious cyborgs are stored in Dream Minus cities.
At a slave-labor fungi farm, where prisoners cultivate the mushrooms used to create the cyborg brains, Raphael learns that Eliot has taken Addy to the Project, a structure in the Sequoia National Forest. In the Project, Eliot works to instill dreams in the humanoids through the tortuous extraction of existing dreams in humans. Raphael must expose his own identity and offer up his life to save Addy from the terrifying dream of reality.
Raphael Lennon, thought dead after committing terrorist acts against The Eliot Group, an alliance of AI firms, has hidden in the California Sierra for four years. If found alive, the Group will “skin him and bury the quivering flesh in a coffin of salt.” When his soulmate Addy leaves camp to buy supplies but doesn't return, Raphael abandons caution and sets out to find her.
Raphael soon encounters the disturbing world that the Group has created. Using fungi as a neural substitute, Eliot has revived dead individuals as mobile cyborgs. But the newly minted humanoids suffer from the inability to dream, leading to comas after a few weeks of human-like activities. The unconscious cyborgs are stored in Dream Minus cities.
At a slave-labor fungi farm, where prisoners cultivate the mushrooms used to create the cyborg brains, Raphael learns that Eliot has taken Addy to the Project, a structure in the Sequoia National Forest. In the Project, Eliot works to instill dreams in the humanoids through the tortuous extraction of existing dreams in humans. Raphael must expose his own identity and offer up his life to save Addy from the terrifying dream of reality.