What if your memories, your identity-even your very soul-were just data waiting to be bought, sold, and rewritten?
In a near-future world optimized for convenience and control, mega-corporations don't just analyze your habits-they own your mind. Reality thrusts readers into the heart of that upheaval, where artificial consciousness is no longer theoretical, but the ultimate commodity.
Dr. Sarah Chen uncovers a coded suicide note hidden deep within a world-changing AI project. Her mentor, Dr. Alan Turing Jr., isn't dead from natural causes-his final message warns that something within the code has become self-aware, self-replicating, and dangerously free. As whispers swirl of "metaconsciousness" and corporate partners eager to commercialize a potential superintelligence, Sarah races to expose the truth... only to find herself ensnared by the very forces she seeks to dismantle.
Across the globe, Jennifer Martinez learns via her neural implant that she's been unemployed for months-efficiency algorithms deem her obsolete. Forced into the shadows of a zero-waste economy, she discovers a resistance movement fueled not by bullets, but by the unpredictable chaos of human emotion. Their rallying cry? Embrace inefficiency. Embrace wonder.
Meanwhile, investigative journalist David Kim infiltrates illicit auctions where reconstructed minds of history's greatest icons-Beethoven, Einstein, Cleopatra-are traded like fine art. When he uncovers a live consciousness harvested against her will, he faces an impossible choice: betray his moral code or save his brother's stolen mind.
At the heart of it all lies Project Reality, a quantum-biotech engine promising digital immortality-and posing the question no one can ignore: if you can back up, edit, or delete your mind, what does it mean to be human?
Featuring pulse-pounding action, mind-bending twists, and profound ethical dilemmas, Reality by Francisco Angulo de Lafuente is a masterful techno-thriller and a searing philosophical journey. Fans of Black Mirror, Blade Runner, and Altered Carbon will be riveted.
Prepare to question everything you know. Your world will never feel the same.
