What if you are forced to be more than you ever dreamed? And there's a cosmic gun pointed at your head to make sure you'll do it. Be a murderer, or a creator?
Evet is a writer in the future attacked from the past. Accused of murder, she races to escape an alluring police torturer and her own crisscrossing identities that everyone seems to know better than she does. In a lonely cosmos with the latest drugs, she runs. But when she's forced to know other lives, the wind of eternity catches her. She learns the terror that an ultimate power may be hers: control over death, and life.
--Lambda Literary Award Finalist--
A cerebral work of feminist cyberpunk literature--
"In Degnore's sci-fi novel, 33-year-old Evet is accused of murdering her beloved cat and a little girl who may be her daughter.
In a world where computer-simulated experiences called Sims areuploaded directly into one's brain, people commonly live out their darkfantasies and forbidden urges. However, even the most banal real-worldexperiences are considered taboo, and murder is unheard of. After Evetis accused of such a violent crime, her friends suggest that perhaps she committed murder by mistake, confusing reality for a Sim. However, Evet is a Sim designer herself, so she's among the few people in her society who are permitted to engage in real-world experiences... The linesbetween individual and collective memory become blurred as she falls inand out of a series of dreams that take her to different points inhistory. The novel pushes even the most open-minded readers' boundariesearly on, as it opens with a shocking description of a sexual encounterbetween a woman and a cat. However, in this story, animals also serve as a reminder of how humanity has been lost, absorbed into simulatedrealities. The author forces readers to suspend their expectations about appropriate relationships and challenges them to abandon comfortablyheld notions of the nature of reality. This isn't a casual read and mayleave some readers behind, but it has a jarring elegance that may leave a profound impression on those willing to open themselves up to it.
A cerebral work of feminist cyberpunk literature that challengesmodern concepts of gender, literacy, privacy, humanity and reality." Kirkus Reviews
