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Justin Cronin (Orion Books)
In the modern science fiction canon, reality is a volatile concept. Books and movies have explored, smashed, and ripped apart the fabric of the material world to expose countless deceptions.
Such revelations are the source of paranoid nightmares in works such as: matrix, truman show Or William Gibson Neuromancer. Then there are the more overt illusions of deception. total recall, Inception and Westworld. Elsewhere, there are stories where a utopian filter obscures a harrowing truth.
In this latter category, you can find equal room for glowing pulp…
