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When We Were Real
When We Were Real: A Novel | Daryl Gregory
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From multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation. JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides its the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North Americas Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlierright after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach. Their fellow passengers are 21st-century pilgrims, each of them on the tour for their own reasons. Theres a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, a crew of horny octogenarians living each day like its their last, and a professor on the run from leather-clad sociopaths who take The Matrix as scripture. Each stop on this trip is stranger than the lasta Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatarwith everyone barreling toward the tours iconic final stop Ghost City, where unbeknownst to our travelers the answer to who is running the simulation may await. When We Were Real is a tour-de-force and exploration of what really matters, even in an artificial world.
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This takes place 7 years after The Announcement. Human beings were told that we are living in a simulation. A group of people board a bus for a tour of The Impossible Wonders from the Canterbury Trails company. The Impossible Wonders are testaments to the fact that the simulation is not a lie. They are contrary to the laws of physics. Gregory is such a skilled writer. His characters really shine. There was a moment when it felt like there👇🏼

Reggie were too many characters but by the end of the book I couldn‘t have kicked anyone off the bus. So good. Pick! (edited) 2d
Lesliereadsalot Sounds like my type! Thanks for the recommendation. 2d
Centique Oh wow! This sounds amazing and Ive loved two other books by him so I‘m thrilled to hear this is good! 2d
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot @Centique as you can imagine, there is a lot of what does it mean if we‘re not real, existential angst. The bus turns out to be a microcosm of our society right now and I just took that we all get through it if we stick together. And there was a lot of humor. 2d
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Litsy, I went to the library today because I don‘t have enough neglected books I own staring me down at my place. Excited to see a new Gregory I went to self checkout where it says the book is on hold please see front desk. I took it there where the lady says yes it is on hold, where I let out a playful,”booo.” But then she says we have this finders keepers rule here, I‘ll check it out to you. The Good Samaritan in me was about to say no, no, 👇🏼

Reggie no. I mean we all know what it‘s like to wait on a hold. The new Abby Jimenez, I‘m like #104 in line. But out of nowhere this greedy book vampire hidden in my heart took over and jumped out and made me say Thanks so much. AND I TOOK IT! I felt like the guy in the upper right, the blood being from the person who was on hold. Am I inviting bad book karma????!!!! 2w
DGRachel Unless you took it from the holds shelf, then no. No guilt. The book gods were smiling on you. 😘 2w
Reggie @DGRachel It was not, it was on the new book shelf. Lol, thanks! 2w
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Lesliereadsalot I would definitely have grabbed it, no guilt! 2w
TheBookgeekFrau Take your blessings when they appear. You lucked out, plain and simple 😊 2w
Ruthiella Sometimes libraries do a skip the line thing with some copies. So no guilt-score! 2w
vivastory Omg, Reggie I will never see that scene from scream the same way again lolol. You're awesome, my friend 📚📚💙...also if I could include a phrase on my obituary it'd be “Greedy book vampire“ (edited) 2w
Reggie @Lesliereadsalot @TheBookgeekFrau @Ruthiella 🙌🏽 I told this story to everybody at work and everybody was like-of course you take the book! Lol 1w
Reggie @Vivastory I tried so hard to find a pic of a vampire eating a heart and couldn‘t fine one. They‘re all about necks. Google/Safari really let me down. Lolol 1w
Suet624 Congrats! 1w
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