The Truth Lenders: A Multimedia Novel

Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen

News Now! Corporation is on the verge of a breakthrough – a pill that takes you inside any news story, right as it happens and right while you sleep. It’s an efficient system: take one of these and by morning you’re not just refreshed, you’re informed. Peter Scharber, architect and designer, is part of the team testing News Now’s new pills; he and colleague Donaldson West provide the feedback the company needs to prepare a product that carries informationto the masses. The real star here is Sammy, a meticulously designed psychedelic news anchor. if the events of the day are too graphic, too tragic – or too boring, for that matter – she serves as a comforting dream companion. …soon everyone will dream the news with Sammy, and she’ll help people (and river rats, and gnomes) experience all of life, in a homogenized distribution of truth that shouldn’t disrupt everyday convenience. that kind of science offers world-shaping power…

status	Copy #1 (5918): in
genre	Sci-Fi
publisher	Tien Gie Huong
publish date	2010
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