Conscious Designs

TitleConscious Designs
Year for Search2022
AuthorsWhite, Nathanial(b. 1983)
Pagination137 pp.
Date Published2022
PublisherMiami University Press
Place PublishedOxford, OH
ISBN Number9781881163701
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The story concerns a man who was badly injured in an accident and uses an exoskeleton to get around and his decision to download himself into virtual reality. The novel alternates between his thoughts and those of his wife who initially rejects doing so herself and, later, as she ponders joining him when a substantial number of others have downloaded themselves. A final brief chapter, Arcadia, is set is set in virtual reality.

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Author Note

(b. 1983)

Full Text

2022 White, Nathanial (b. 1983). Conscious Designs. Oxford, OH: Miami University Press. 137 pp. IaU

The story concerns a man who was badly injured in an accident and uses an exoskeleton to get around and his decision to download himself into virtual reality. The novel alternates between his thoughts and those of his wife who initially rejects doing so herself and, later, as she ponders joining him when a substantial number of others have downloaded themselves. A final brief chapter, Arcadia, is set is set in virtual reality.