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ZKMDY // SURPRISE MODE

/the book is in Serbian and has been translated into English/

The first novel in the trilogy: MULTILAYERED REALITY

 

Publisher: BUNKER / Novi Sad / February 2024

 

Page count: 264 

 

Paperback

 

Cover illustration: Luka Tilinger

 

Book size: 20 x 14 cm

Print run: 500

ISBN 978-86-89335-05-7

Cyber Reality Fiction can be interpreted as a subgenre of science fiction or speculative fiction that explores ideas related to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cyberspace, ethical issues of the digital age, and other technological topics. These works often depict the interaction between people, technology, and the virtual world, creating intriguing stories that reflect contemporary social and technological changes and their impact on human experience. They also explore the emotional and psychological effects of technology on personal identities, developing complex stories that delve deeply into aspects of the human mind and social interactions

She, while using the Metaverse virtual reality application, suddenly encounters an unusual situation with her VR equipment, triggering a series of events that become increasingly aggressive over time. The hacker LoL comes to her aid, knowing the fatal outcome that could occur. Parallel timelines are set in motion, where She makes different decisions that impact her future life. Meanwhile, She meets the Young Man, enters an emotional relationship with him, and discovers that he is the result of a bizarre genetic experiment. The parallel storylines have different endings, all based on the threat of artificial intelligence created to satisfy atypical Metaverse users like She and LoL. And this threat is life-threatening

Reviewers

One of the functions of artistic expression is to pose questions or suggest a possible outcome. When a visual artist and university professor/engineer bravely ventures into the field of literature, we get Surprise Mode. But jokes aside—this novel is an interesting technological-visual symbiosis, conveyed in a light language, with a dynamic structure and an exciting, almost crime-cyberpunk atmosphere. Today, as humanity frets and calculates the impact of artificial intelligence technology, the novel could be misinterpreted as the author's negative stance. But no, he simply presents us with one of the many possibilities of modern technology and its influence on our lives in a screen-based, immersive, and life-encompassing picture.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       prof. Maja Budžarov, MA

Quantum mechanics teaches us that microscopic systems, the size of atoms and smaller, composed of a few elementary particles, exist in a so-called superposition of states. They inherently contain all possible versions of their temporal evolution, and which reality will actually manifest for this tiny fragment of our world depends on probability, but also on the observer. Sometimes, the decisive influence on the transition from a multitude of possibilities to what will become inevitable reality lies in how we bring this fragile system to the level of our perception.

Between the covers of this book, the author skillfully places a microscopic fragment of our reality, centered around a girl who tries to defend her consciousness—and later her life—from an unwanted attack by a virtual reality virus. Accompanying her is a young man whose life story is connected to high technology in a very different way. The author presents their story in a superposition of states, i.e., in several parallel timelines in which the microscopic world of this couple could exist. There is a broad spectrum of possible outcomes, from tragedy to fairy tale, and it is up to the reader to choose one of the offered realities for this highly endearing couple.
                                                                                            prof. Miodrag Krmar, PhD, nuklear phisicist 

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