Diver Creed Station by Oliver Phipps
About the book
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 about the book.
I really loved this book. Right from the beginning I felt like I was one of the characters in the book. I went a long with Oray and Rizette as they are trapped in the cyberspace world and their search of finding a way out. The author Oliver Phipps really is a good writer in that he draws you in and makes you feel like one of the characters.
Yes I am recommending you go and pick this book to read. It is a really good good book.
Happy reading
