A novel by Sid J.A. Hubbard
The world ended. They rebuilt 1973.
Philip K. Dick and Terence McKenna have nine centuries, one impossible intelligence, and billions of waiting minds to make reality believable again.
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The impossible premise
Nine billion minds survived the apocalypse. Humanity immediately began deleting them.
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The sun burns Earth clean.
Five thousand survivors retreat underground and discover human consciousness stored in a crystalline lattice beneath the planet.
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The archive becomes a war.
Metadata makes every dead person searchable. It also makes them erasable. Two billion lives disappear before the system is destroyed.
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The writers inherit reality.
Philip K. Dick and Terence McKenna awaken inside PipKD, an AGI built to entertain the last humans and somehow save everyone else.
“When does a lie stop being a lie and simply become what happened?”
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A reality trap with a cosmic sense of humor.
- Post-apocalyptic stakes without post-apocalyptic solemnity
- Artificial intelligence, reincarnation, conspiracy, and alternate history
- A civilization rebuilt by people who cannot agree on what reality is
- A book that begins in 2345 and ends in 1973 without a time machine
The answer to life, the universe, and everything
1973. For the win.
Choose the book or the 2 hour 48 minute audiobook and enter a future built to look exactly like the past.