When we were real
(2025)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/GREGORY,D

1 Hold on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/GREGORY,D Due: 2/6/2026

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Saga Press, 2025
EDITION
First Saga Press hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

442 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781668060049, 1668060043 :, 1668060043, 9781668060049
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Includes book club questions

"From 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"--

JP 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 a week-long bus tour of North America's Impossibles, the 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. Their 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 The Matrix 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