The Dark Side of Dreams by Marjorie Kay Noble; What The Mirrors Knew by Linda Annas Ferguson
By Julie Sara Porter
Bookworm Reviews
The Dark Side of Dreams by Marjorie Kay Noble
This review is a summary. The full review can be found on LitPick.
Marjorie Kay Noble’s The Dark Side of Dreams is an astute, insightful, and vivid look at a future of simulated reality and corporate control.
In the future where consciousness can be uploaded to a simulated afterlife called Shemathra’s Realm, Mira Patel uploads a digital copy of her grandfather Gunter Holden, protagonist of the book Babylon Dreams. She recruits her grandfather to help her fight the oppressive system controlling the real and virtual worlds. She also learns more about Gunter’s nefarious past which challenges her previous view of him.
The world that Mira lives in and Gunter saw the start of is one where gigantic corporations openly control everything and everybody from birth to beyond death. This is a sad situation that the current dictators created but Gunter also has to bear a lot of responsibility for what he openly caused and what he allowed to happen during his own climb to success.
He is made to face many of the decisions that he made, the people that he hurt, the financial gain but emotional abandonment, and the corruption that occurred when he made the first choice but others took his ideas and made them worse.
He has to make the choice to be the hero after death in simulated reality that he wasn't in life in the physical world.
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