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--Praise for Virtual Life
"During my years…I have read numerous works by unpublished authors. I can honestly say that your novel ranks among the best…"
—Peter Gerardo, freelance writer & editor
"You seem to have a good grasp of just about everything, from mechanics to style to flow."
—Christine LePorte, professional editor
“The storyline is clear and the action is maintained throughout the book, moving inexorably toward the ultimate conclusion, which contains a couple nice twists to keep the reader guessing.”
—iUniverse, Editorial Review
From the author of Patent Searching Made Easy, and the inventor of The Home Fire Shield, comes a novel of stunning technology that challenges accepted beliefs and morality. Virtual Life is the story of John Clayton, a teenager in rural New York who stumbles across the VR200 virtual reality helmet. It is part of a classified virtual reality combat simulator that was lost in a traffic accident. John uses the VR200 to experience vivid combat simulations—classical and modern—and to sit at the feet of history’s greatest thinkers. But there’s a problem. John’s expanding intellect—rooted in established scientific principles—puts him in direct conflict with his parents, church and community.
Virtual Life portrays the best and worst of humanity as all the passions and longings; love and hate, courage and fear, ambition and apathy, erupt while John struggles to understand what he’s learned.
Then, just as he’s beginning to cope with his experiences, John uncovers a back door in the system. A way to use the VR200 to create not just an artificial intelligence, but a virtual human being—capable of a complete range of thoughts, feelings and actions.
Unfortunately, the VR200’s developers are hot on John’s trail. They suspect their lost equipment has fallen into the hands of foreign agents. The military will stop at nothing to retrieve the VR200 and to keep its loss a secret from Congressional critics and the media.
Author David Hitchcock has degrees in physics and engineering, and has worked as a computer consultant on the MX missile, the Milstar satellite program, and advanced capability torpedoes. He currently resides with his family in Twinsburg, OH.
Virtual Life is available in paperback (ISBN 0-595-28445-0) and Hardcover (ISBN 0-595-65799-0), from Amazon.com, BN.com (Barnes & Noble) and iUniverse.com.
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