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All The Thin Places
Tashi creates a virtual reality world in an attempt to recreate a thin place that serves as a portal between Earth, where she lives, and Ka, a world in another dimension where her boyfriend Michael has disappeared.
Thin places, where the boundaries of two worlds meet, existed as folktales in Tashi’s mind. That was before Michael used a thin place to disappear into Ka, a world in another dimension, leaving Tashi bereft and severing the psychic ties that knit Tashi to Michael and her three friends, who stopped talking to her the day after Michael disappeared.
Convinced that Michael has left behind clues leading to him, Tashi recreates Michael’s memories of his experiences in Ka into Ka World, a virtual reality world, in an attempt to simulate “The Dissolving,” a brain state of information overload where notions of time and selfhood cease to exist, to create a thin place that can open a portal into another dimension to reach Michael. As Tashi follows the clues that Michael leaves behind on Earth, she unravels the tangled yarn of her broken friendships and confronts the risk of unleashing the dark side of immersive virtual reality experiences that threaten to rip apart the fabric of reality itself.
A novel that explores love, loneliness, and transcendentalism, All The Thin Places asks the question, what is the nature of reality when the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds blur?
Author Photo and Bio
Radhika Singh is a fiction writer, daydreamer, and weaver of words. She has a background in technical writing, journalism, and computer science and writes fiction that probes people’s relationship to technology and the nature of consciousness. She lives in San Francisco, California.
Book Information
- Genre/Sub-Genres: Science Fiction/Action&Adventure
- Title: All The Thin Places
- Author name: Radhika Singh
- Publisher: Radhika Singh
- Publication date: March 30, 2023
- Page length: 244 pages
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- Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Singh, Radhika (Writer), author.
Title: All the thin places : an alternate reality novel / Radhika Singh.
Description: [San Francisco, California] : Radhika Singh, [2023]
Identifiers: ISBN: 979-8-9876664-0-1 (Paperback) | 979-8-9876664-1-8 (ebook) | LCCN: 2023904672
Subjects: LCSH: Virtual reality--Fiction. | Alternate reality games--Fiction. | Multiverse--Fiction. | Metaverse--Fiction. | Gateways--Fiction. | Friendship--Fiction. | Shared virtual environments --Fiction. | Loneliness--Fiction. | Metaphysics--Fiction. | Transcendentalism--Fiction. | LCGFT: Science fiction. | Alternative histories (Fiction) | Action and adventure fiction. | Romance fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure.
Classification: LCC: PS3619.I5744 A45 2023 | DDC: 813/.6--dc23
Target Audience
Fans of science fiction writers who explore stories about the metaverse, such as Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash), Tad Williams (Otherland), William Gibson (Neuromancer), and Ernest Cline (Ready Player One), nerds who like Dungeons & Dragons and the TV show Stranger Things that build upon stories investigating people locked into virtual worlds, fans of the movie The Matrix that highlights the conflict between the real and virtual, fans of Brit Marling’s soulful sci-fi movies like The OA, and fans of speculative literary fiction writers such as Haruki Murakami will like to read my novel All The Thin Places that explores how virtual reality can influence brain states affecting consciousness.
Key Ideas
- The vision of the metaverse as a community-owned utopia that will always be at odds with companies building proprietary immersive digital experiences is a timely setting for stories seeking to probe the limits of human consciousness.
- As a strong, soulful female protagonist who is unafraid to change the world or mold it to fit her will, Tashi aligns with the values and mission of representing female protagonists in science fiction.
- The exploration of what it means to experience reality when the boundaries of the real and virtual blur.