FauxVille

The author very graciously sent me a copy for my reading enjoyment. The paperback is a nice quality with some thicc pages. In this scifi debut, I was pleased to feel refreshed with a new take on some very science fiction threads. It is both well written, and simply written, which to me is one of my favorite types of reading. To me, this definitely felt like it was pulling from elsewhere out in the world, but not at all in the negative way. It is like a futuristic-Slaughterhouse-Five, with elemen

What a pleasure to find this rare treat!Fauxville, is a complex cyberpunk thriller that layers reality and identity to create a mind bending story that explores the implication of powerful AI consciousness and the human mind. The story telling is masterfully crafted in a non-linear fashion. I did find myself disoriented at times, a feeling that is shared with the protagonist who tries to untangle what is simulated, the identity of a woman and his own identity. The plot includes many POV and subp

“After the pandemic, people hugged, friends and families reconnected, but a few short years later we were back to shooting each other. David, son, we're a disease.”Fauxville is the indie debut from D.K. Pike, the book follows David Miller a war veteran who is suffering from amnesia and trying to put the pieces of his life back together, until an old army buddy tell’s him the war is not over and this is in fact a simulation. For a debut novel this is a solid effort from Pike, it tackles a very in