In the future, technology has made reality itself replaceable. Billions of people live permanently inserted into alternative worlds, escaping the true reality of unemployment, mass poverty, and a corrupted oligarchy. All you must give is your right to vote in proxy, a meaningless gesture when you won't even remember the life where you gave it.
But reality is not so easily fled, as these virtual worlds (Parks) are controlled by massive corporations locked in a vicious competition for members. Mercenaries mount incursions into the Parks of rival corporations, intent on weakening their opponents' political buying power through any means.
Isaac Pember is a Warden with the failing Dachous Corporation, a specialist trained to enter the Parks and stop the incursions before their rampage claims too many profitable lives. With the corporation reeling from a recent mass death event, Isaac is pressed into tracking down a wayward employee gone native. But what he finds is a brutal conspiracy that sets him racing to save the Parks from a mysterious new threat.
How far would you go to save those who have abandoned reality?
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Mind Park
Robert Lundeen, author