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“Brings to mind the likes of Asimov, Clarke and to a degree Adams. The ideas send shivers down my spine. You have to read it for yourself.”
    Goodreads review, Aug 2022

“A fun, faster than light trip straight to the edge of the universe! There’s everything in this story about mankind’s first encounter with extraterrestrial life.”
    Amazon review, Jan 2023

Few survived the Destruction. Tech did, and the life of 2072 is experienced in non.life. Remotely suspended in their nanocradles, dispersed people around the globe connect in the metaverse, building a future, embodied in bots, and imagining... together.

Virtual lovers Rai and Art, biologist and cosmologist, create, theorise and attempt to make lives real, in a time of unwanted new tensions... while Xeen blips fifty times a day, reviewing all the best non.life spaces.

Nola, ex-Versality CEO, detects a dark, near-Pluto-scale interstellar object, dangerously heading straight into the Solar System. It does not conform to known laws of physics, inducing world-changing technological accelerations and connections.

A fast-paced, hemidemisemi-humorous, invention-laden, inter-generational, time-shifting tale of dystopia determinedly heading for unexpectedly universal utopia. A near future science fiction.

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Love, play and work in a metaverse Minds and sentience Genders and pronouns Artificial, musical and collective intelligence Transparency Climate disaster Existential threats Swarms of nanobots New theories of physics Gravity Quantum entanglement Einstein White holes Understanding time Singularity Renaissance Invention and imagination Spacecraft propulsion Living on Mars Exoplanets and exomoons Virtual and interstellar travel The speed of light Time dilation  Faster than light Non-human civilisations  Hybrid humans The evolution of life

As a writer Rollo Carpenter blipped into being for this, his first novel, but Versality represents a lifetime of scientific interest, spontaneous ideas, climbing trees, and creative computing.

Aged 16 in 1981, Rollo spent all his savings on a 1k 'microcomputer'. He jumped inside the machine, programming games to play, and a bot to talk to – years before that word even existed.

His ideas evolved into Cleverbot, a website and AI. Thanks to wacky and user-reflecting tendencies it became popular, and has spoken to and learned from hundreds of millions of people around the world. The real world.