A THICK FILM of neglect still covered everything in sight.

Monty Python.

lucid

now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

my aunt Alice walked in, a malnourished harpy in a housecoat,

All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

figured out how to open the gate. Simply inserting the Crystal Key into the keyhole had

hyperkinetic,

The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.