Greg Egan's "Permutation City," might have something of the flavour you seem to be thinking of, but within VR, although it might not. Probably not the flavour you want, but I did enjoy the Otherland series by Tad Williams, which had an interesting mixture of VR and real-life thriller-style drama. It runs a little long, but I like that in a story.
I adored Greg Egan's "Diaspora," which certainly considered the disparity between reality and constructed reality and a time when that might not have the obvious answers we assign it now. I think it's a better book than his other mentioned above, but it has less to do with your theme.
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Date: Wednesday, 7 December 2005 02:56 am (UTC)I adored Greg Egan's "Diaspora," which certainly considered the disparity between reality and constructed reality and a time when that might not have the obvious answers we assign it now. I think it's a better book than his other mentioned above, but it has less to do with your theme.