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The Reality Plague
The year is 2075. Society has barely survived a pandemic, a major biological catastrophe that decimated the human population. People cannot touch and make love to each other for fear of a plague that threatens humanity with extinction. In an effort to provide some semblance of human contact, they try to live and love in virtual worlds.
Jake Harrison, an engineer, and Liv, a mysterious fugitive, struggle to maintain their physical humanity in a real world that seems to have become hostile to both affection and love. In an accidental physical encounter, they discover each other, and find they feel a growing mutual affection even though it is impossible to physically express it.
Does Liv know the secret to the cause of the disaster and its possible solution? If so, can Jake find the strength and courage to help her? Can they remove the barrier that prevents them from really loving each other, and end the threat of the Reality Plague forever?
Jake Harrison, an engineer, and Liv, a mysterious fugitive, struggle to maintain their physical humanity in a real world that seems to have become hostile to both affection and love. In an accidental physical encounter, they discover each other, and find they feel a growing mutual affection even though it is impossible to physically express it.
Does Liv know the secret to the cause of the disaster and its possible solution? If so, can Jake find the strength and courage to help her? Can they remove the barrier that prevents them from really loving each other, and end the threat of the Reality Plague forever?
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First published April 20, 2011
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April 1, 2012
A quick read set in year 2075 wherein, as the aftermath of a pandemic settles down, people are naturally racked with paranoia. Yet, Jake Harrison, an engineer, and Liv, a mysterious fugitive, struggle to maintain their physical humanity by constantly craving for what used to be done in normal society.
Interesting concept but did not end to my satisfaction. Many questions were left unanswered or were not fully addressed. Liv know the secret to the cause of the disaster and its possible solution? Again, I'll never know.
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Title The Reality Plague
Author Doug Welch
Reviewed By Purplycookie
Interesting concept but did not end to my satisfaction. Many questions were left unanswered or were not fully addressed. Liv know the secret to the cause of the disaster and its possible solution? Again, I'll never know.
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Book Details:
Title The Reality Plague
Author Doug Welch
Reviewed By Purplycookie
March 4, 2019
This was definitely a page turner but I found it a bit unbelievable I can't fathom how people would never question on having human interaction again. I understand that there was a disease that almost destroyed earth but still to be only contained in a cubicle seems depressing to me and how people just accept that.
May 9, 2012
Nice book about the current dependency on Internet and hot of can develop. It's a real page turner.
Was a very familiar topic after reading The Machine Stops from E.M. Foster.
Was a very familiar topic after reading The Machine Stops from E.M. Foster.
March 28, 2012
A plague has ended human contact resulting in the end of children. This is a quick read (90) pages
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