{"product_id":"when-we-were-real","title":"When We Were Real","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it's the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America's \u003ci\u003eImpossibles, \u003c\/i\u003ethe physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier--right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir fellow passengers are 21st-century pilgrims, each of them on the tour for their own reasons. There's a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, a crew of horny octogenarians living each day like it's their last, and a professor on the run from leather-clad sociopaths who take \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e as scripture. Each stop on this trip is stranger than the last--a Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatar--with everyone barreling toward the tour's iconic final stop Ghost City, where unbeknownst to our travelers the answer to who is running the simulation may await. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Real\u003c\/i\u003e is \"an addictive thriller packed with winning characters and big, brilliant ideas\" (Lev Grossman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bright Sword \u003c\/i\u003eand The Magicians trilogy) and an exploration of what really matters, even in an artificial world.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1668060043\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781668060049\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Gregory, Daryl\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: S\u0026amp;s\/Saga Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"S\u0026s\/Saga Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Apr 2025)","offer_id":46080151879877,"sku":"9781668060049","price":28.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781668060049.jpg?v=1776034832","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/when-we-were-real","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}