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The Virtual Muser
Is this world any different, or have we walked through the looking glass and cannot find our way back?" |
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The Virtual Muser
Is this world any different, or have we walked through the looking glass and cannot find our way back?" |
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Outside In
by Ronald Green Sparked by a girl to whom he didn't even speak and by his colleague's mysterious disappearance, Pete Fordham is drawn into a search that is as strange as it is enlightening. Having to face a number of real and virtual realities, he is drawn inwards towards himself and thereby to the meaning of existence itself. From the first step in a restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to the cataclysmic end in his study in London, the story is a personal description of a path that leads through the disintegration of reality, of time and of space. Outside In uses fiction as a way to engage the reader in fundamental questions that have been dealt with by philosophers from Plato through Hegel, Derrida, Baudrillard, Heidegger and others. Amazingly, through showing the Internet as one of the worlds that represents its own reality, "Outside In" goes further than the philosophers themselves were able to. "Outside In is a stunning work of depth that gives new angles to the thoughts that have exercised human beings from the beginning of time."
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