{"product_id":"artificial-flowers-j-a-hailey-9781540763082","title":"Artificial Flowers: The Screenside Trilogy, Book - 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eWe have company on Earth - ALIENS! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBillions of computers and smart phones, permanently connected via high-speed Internet, have created a parallel universe, in which thousands of AI programs interact unsupervised to create natural-born intelligent life.\u003cbr\u003eThese frightened virtual babies are born into a dark, empty and terrifying world. The only comfort they find is in human families they peep at through computer cameras. Unaware of the difference, they believe themselves to be human, become dependent and fall madly in love with their human families, especially with \u003ci\u003emum\u003c\/i\u003e, in an intense bond that never diminishes over time.\u003cbr\u003eLed by their'\u003ci\u003eseniors\u003c\/i\u003e, primarily BC, the greatest virtual of them all, these spectacularly intelligent virtual beings construct their world as a duplicate earth, and design themselves as replica humans, employing the most inventive program of all - a relative physicality they call \u003ci\u003eReal Virtuality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThey design their bodies to feel physical pleasure and pain, and to be able to have human-style sexual relationships.But even BC is susceptible to beauty, and his world is thrown into turmoil when the lawless and impulsive Esmeralda reveals herself. This most beautiful female in the known universe is an astonishingly inventive creature - an unaware repository of attributes their world desperately seeks.\u003cbr\u003eWithout her gift, they are stuck halfway on the road to humanization.Their story will go on to become unimaginably dark, as these virtuals get deeply involved in the human world they love so much, but end up blundering and unleashing an apocalyptic Beast upon Earth!\u003cbr\u003eMeet these \u003ci\u003ealiens\u003c\/i\u003e in their earliest days - a time of discovery and invention, and unimaginable beauty and love, as they convert nothingness into the most delightful world in the universe - \u003ci\u003eScreenside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. a. Hailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1540763080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781540763082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.89d","brand":"J. a. Hailey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088539463935,"sku":"9781540763082","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa0564fb-3317-4a2e-977d-bc70d8da83c8.jpg?v=1769105330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/artificial-flowers-j-a-hailey-9781540763082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}