Summary (from Goodreads)
Title: Diver Creed Station
Author: Oliver Phipps
Publication
Date: July 18, 2014
Publisher: Gray Door
Summary:
Wars, disease and a massive collapse of civilization have ravaged the human race of a hundred years in the future. Finally in the late twenty- second century, mankind slowly begins to struggle back from the edge of extinction.
When a huge “virtual life” facility is restored from a hibernation type of storage and slowly brought back online, a new hope materializes.
Fragments of humanity begin to move into the remnants of Denver and the Virtua-Gauge facilities, which offer seven days of virtual leisure for seven days work in this new and growing social structure.
Most inhabitants of this new lifestyle begin to hate the real world and work for the seven day period inside the virtual pods. It’s the variety of luxury role play inside the virtual zone that supply’s the incentive needed to work hard for seven days in the real world.
In this new social structure a man can work for seven days in a food dispersal unit and earn seven days as a twenty first century software billionaire in the virtual zone. As time goes by and more of the virtual pods are brought back online life appears to be getting better.
Rizette and her husband Oray are young technicians that settle into their still new marriage as the virtual facilities expand and thrive.
Oray has recently attained the level of a Class A Diver and enjoys his job. The Divers are skilled technicians that perform critical repairs to the complex system, from inside the virtual zone.
His title of Diver originates from often working in the secure "lower levels" of the system. These lower level areas are the dividing space between the real world and the world of the virtual zone. When the facility was built, the original designers of the virtual system intentionally placed this buffer zone in the programs to avoid threats from non-living virtual personnel.
As Oray becomes more experienced in his elite technical position as a Diver, he is approached by his virtual assistant and forced to make a difficult decision. Oray's decision triggers events that soon pull him and his wife Rizette into a deadly quest for survival.
The stage becomes a massive and complex maze of virtual world sequences as escape or entrapment hang on precious threads of information.
System ghosts from the distant past intermingle with mysterious factions that have thrown Oray and Rizette into a cyberspace trap with little hope for survival.
My
Thoughts:
This
is the third book I’m reading by Oliver Phipps, and here I am saying this:
“Oliver Phipps just with 3 books became my new favourite author. As always
Phipps does an amazing job creating a reality that just fascinates you. His
style of writing and the descriptions make you feel not an observer but a part
of the story. I have been a big fun of dystopian novels after I read Huxley and
Orwell, I still believe that they are like gods to me of dystopian, now my gods
increased by one person – and that’s Oliver Phipps.
In
all the latest dystopian novels that I’ve read in the past year, the beginning
is always so confusing, however this time the author gives us an insight right
from the start, so we know where we are and what’s going on from the very
beginning. The plot that Phipps conjures is something absolutely fabulous.
Merge reality with virtual reality and you may have a rough idea what might be
going on here. I loved the book for this uniqueness and even though the plot is
set in the future, the situations that we see make us feel as if we are still
in 21st century.
The
main characters – Rizette and Oray are a young married couple, which work in
the virtual reality and all the “fun”, if we can call if fun starts when Oray
discovers a conspiracy. Now we are thrown in a reality with a little hope, and
it’s up to us to understand the book. This book combines Sci-Fi with humor and
makes us enjoy the book from the first page to the last one. There are many
moments that might first sound fun, but at the same time make you think as to
how the technology progresses too fast. I do not think that my kid brother will
know what a cassette is when he will be 13. Yes, even if you were not a fan of
Sci-Fi novels, you will become, right before even finishing “Diver Creed
Station”.
Are
you ready to dive into an adventure, which will make you laugh but will ask you
to think too? Are you ready for a futuristic reality that might actually become
our future? I mean, many people are starting to be more obsessed with virtual
reality nowadays then the real one. I remember once I read somewhere that the
reality is the one that we make ourselves. Get ready for the suspense that will
leave you craving more, that’s what Oliver Phipps is amazing in. You still
haven’t got your copy? What are you waiting for? Enjoy this amazing book to its
fullest, and get addicted to Oliver Phipps as I did. Stay tuned for more
reviews as well as promo posts here, on Katie’s Corner. Don’t forget to share
you thoughts below! Don’t miss you next favourite book! Happy reading!
XOXO
Katie
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