Michael Hagerty—GhostRayder, to his fans—reviewed video games and made game videos for a living. He was very used to virtual worlds. They were his bread and butter. He was quite certain he understood very clearly the lines of demarcation between game and reality, between what was real and what was not. What was physical, and what was virtual.
Then one day, not long after he reviewed a newly released game, a mystery person sent him a modified version of the game, and asked him to go back in and try it again.
Michael would soon find out that the question of real or virtual, human or not, was far more nuanced and less clear-cut than he had ever believed.
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A new novel from Sean Fenian, Becoming Real is an exploration of the natures of humanity and reality.
Or perhaps it's a commentary on some of the blind spots of video game design.