Realtime Interrupt

Hogan, James P.

ISBN 10: 0553374540 / ISBN 13: 9780553374544

Published by Spectra, 1995

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In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. When Joe Corrigan Awakens In A Pittsburgh Hospital Without Any Memory, He Embarks On A Quest To Recover His Lost Past. What He Discovers Is That His Life No Longer Exists. As Director Of The Supersecret Oz Project, His Job Was To Create A Computerized Environment Virtually Indistinguishable From Reality. To Test The Effectiveness Of His Virtual World, He Volunteered Himself As One Of Its First Human Inhabitants. But The Oz Project Failed And Joe Has Lost His Wife, Friends, And Colleagues. Left Alone To Pick Up The Pieces Of His Shattered Life, Joe Finds Himself In An Unfamiliar World - A World Where Nothing Is Quite As It Should Be. The One Authentic Person He Meets Is Lilly, Whom He Recognizes As A Fellow Oz Volunteer. Lilly Is Different From The Others - Somehow She Is More Alive. Together Joe And Lilly Learn A Terrifying Truth About The World They Inhabit - And Now They Must Discover How To Get Out Alive!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Realtime Interrupt
• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553374540
• ISBN 13: 9780553374544
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction - Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Awakening in a hospital with no memory of his past, Joe Corrigan learns that he is the creator and test subject for the failed Oz computer project, which has trapped Joe in an irreversible and terrifying life simulation program. Original.

Reviews

While some may find the latest work from Prometheus Award winner Hogan to be a bit preachy, those who enjoy stories with a moral will find this near-future parable denouncing greed hard to resist. A rising star in the field of computer simulation, Joe Corrigan is promoted to direct a top-secret project, an entire computerized reality. When corporate rivals plot his downfall, Joe finds his situation abruptly changed from cocky software engineer to desperate prisoner. Trapped in a software world of his own making, Joe must regain control of the computer to save himself and other "volunteer' subjects. Whether dealing with the real or the pixel-filled world, Hogan (Multiplex Man) is an entertaining storyteller who has a fine talent for creating sympathetic characters. Entrapment in virtual reality is not a new idea, but creative twists and a vividly descriptive narrative emphasize original handling of the subject. Realistically illustrating a dangerous combination of computer research, corporate politics, market pressure and personal ambition, the author delivers a frighteningly believable scenario of science gone awry.
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An ambitious experiment in virtual reality collapses, leaving project director Joe Corrigan in the lurch with a failed marriage and severe psychological problems. When his attempts to rebuild his life result in continual frustration at being unable to fit into his surroundings, Corrigan begins to suspect that his problems lie not with himself but with the world of his perceptions, a world that just might not be the "real world." Hogan's (The Multiplex Man, Bantam, 1994) grasp of the technology behind virtural reality lends immediacy and credibility to this suspenseful tale of paranoia and politics on the cutting edge of science.
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