Users

by Colin Winnette Narrated by Justin Price

Overview

Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats. Typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address, these persistent threats push Miles into a paranoid panic, blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children.



The once-promising road to success becomes a narrow set of choices for Miles, who, in a last ditch effort to save his job, pitches his masterpiece, a revolutionary device code-named the Egg, which will transform the company.



In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates-with both humor and creeping dread-how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.

Editorial Reviews

MARCH 2023 - AudioFile

It takes some doing to get inside Miles, this audiobook's screwed-up protagonist (using the term loosely). Yet narrator Justin Price smoothly dissects this lead character as he unravels. Miles has been coasting as a star creative at a virtual-reality corporation, but then he becomes a pariah receiving death threats, thanks in large part to a change in company policy. A person who can't abide conflict, he ends up losing his job and his family. Price's narration is full of Miles's confusion and paranoia. Listeners may have trouble tolerating Miles, but thanks to Price, they understand why he sinks into an abyss as his life gets away from him. Price's vocal skills make this troubling portrait of a flawed man required listening. D.E.M. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

MARCH 2023 - AudioFile

It takes some doing to get inside Miles, this audiobook's screwed-up protagonist (using the term loosely). Yet narrator Justin Price smoothly dissects this lead character as he unravels. Miles has been coasting as a star creative at a virtual-reality corporation, but then he becomes a pariah receiving death threats, thanks in large part to a change in company policy. A person who can't abide conflict, he ends up losing his job and his family. Price's narration is full of Miles's confusion and paranoia. Listeners may have trouble tolerating Miles, but thanks to Price, they understand why he sinks into an abyss as his life gets away from him. Price's vocal skills make this troubling portrait of a flawed man required listening. D.E.M. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178379189
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	02/21/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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