Virtual Death
Shale Aaron
It's the day after tomorrow in an America where Chevrolet Reagans (no one at the wheel) cruise the streets of free/dog cities (they keep the homeless down), where cannibalism is legal (in Colorado), & where Lydia Melmoth is a celebrity. A special kind of celebrity. Lydia is a death artist who has flatlined for fame & fortune in vast arenas & underground clubs. She died more times than anyone alive, then got out of the game before the gray rot turned her brain to bric-a-brac. But Lydia is a legend, & legends' lives (& deaths) are not their own. Her fans still worship her, her mother needs the money from the TV rights -- so Lydia has agreed to end it all one more time in the big comeback that could be her last.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- DIANE Publishing Company
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9780061054303
- Genre
- Science FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Celebrity and fameDystopian future societyDeath and mortality
Awards
- Philip K. Dick AwardShortlisted(1996)
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