When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

One of the most genuine post-Matrix novels I've read. You know, like post-Cyberpunk, but leaning whole-hog into the ho-hum fact of living in a simulation.

Not that we have to worry about that, right? Unless you really think we're already living in the worst of all possible simulations already, and then it can only get better from here.

It's better to just take a roadtrip. Or greyhound across universes. What-Ifs if we didn't want to get sued by Disney for Marvel infringement.

But it's better still, because the novel focuses on heart. Having heart. Because isn't that all we really have when anything else is possible?

Good novel.

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