Futur intérieur

Christopher Priest

Publié par Pocket

280 pages

Résumé

A Dream of Wessex (aka The Perfect Lover) can be read as a straightforward story about a group of 20th-century dreamers who create a consensus virtual-reality future. Once they enter their imaginary world they are unable to remember who they are, or where they're from. On another level, the novel is itself an extended metaphor for the way in which extrapolated futures are created. The year is 1985. The Wessex Project, a privately funded project, discovers a method to transport the collective unconscious of some of England's most brilliant minds into an illusory ideal society. The object: to gather information vital to our survival on earth. But in the process, power, deception & love join to jeopardize the philanthropic program.