{"product_id":"9798997312404","title":"Digital Rapture, a Novel","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDigital Rapture is must-read dark sci-fi realism for 2026. Find out what happens after an advertising-driven mind upload and coerced mass-su*c*de event, as told by the workers left behind. Digital Rapture appeals to dystopian fiction readers, but is guaranteed to grip any reader, regardless of genre preferences. Readers will be disturbed, enthralled, and hopefully activated by its reminiscence to our actual dystopian reality, and those of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book illustrates a dark and extreme sci-fi horror fictionalization of the dystopian world in which we're already living, and descending further into, following the unconscious actions of humans welding unprecedented technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpect a fast-paced first-person present narration, vivid imagery, impossible choices, indescribable loss, social and economic turmoil, action and viol*nce, trauma-bonded romance, some spice, coping, and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring a period of global indiscriminate violence, Zoey and Stephen are fortunate essential workers in an all-but-crippled economy, propped up in their area by tech-industrial investment from FederalTech JV, the developer behind a mysterious data center construction project employing most of the residents of their perimeter-secured town.\u003cbr\u003eThings go from bad to worse for Zoey, Stephen, and many more in their community, as droves of recently-drafted youth face capture and death in an out-of-control overseas war. They begin receiving advertisements with solutions to the collective depression.\u003cbr\u003eThe first ad promotes an escape to a harmonious digital afterlife and what many consider the new human reality, Uplink. The only side effect: expiration and disposal of the body.\u003cbr\u003eAs bad as things are for Zoey and Stephen, they can’t imagine going to Uplink. But when Uplink Day passes and many of their loved ones are gone, they’re filled with regret.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to avoiding Uplink, they’ve been ignoring ads for another new technology: Interface, the only brain-AI interface, lauded as the ultimate workplace aid and the cure to a host of personal and psychological problems. When their jobs are threatened and drug dependency is at an all-time high, how will Zoey and Stephen continue avoiding Interface?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of 1984, Black Mirror, The Terminator, and The Matrix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Donation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52794498318567,"sku":"Staff Picks \u0026 Surprises","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/71qoUEe6meL._SL1500.jpg?v=1791570195","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/products\/9798997312404","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}