Books by Daniel Verastiqui

Books by Daniel Verastiqui

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House of Nepenthe
When Kenneth Barnes takes a business trip to his old hometown, he finds himself on the wrong end of a gun. Now in the hospital in a coma, Kenneth’s life begins to flash before his eyes in the form of the House of Nepenthe, an infinitely large construct that contains the sum of all his memories.
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Vise Manor (2022)
Dinner. Drinks. Murder. Eccentric tech billionaire Winston Vise has invited eight guests to his secluded home in the New York countryside. His mission: to find investors and buyers for his new line of artificially intelligent synthetic humans. After a lavish evening of drinking and feasting, Winston takes the stage in
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Brigham Plaza (2020)
Most hackers think they’re going to live forever; Johnny San Vito isn’t so optimistic. While snooping around a protected construct in Vinestead International’s virtual reality network, he starts to get the feeling this might be his final visit to cyberspace. To preserve his data and leave a
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Hybrid Mechanics (2019)
Armando Carrillo has always lived with the nagging feeling that the world wasn’t real, but he never expected to wake up naked in an abandoned underground bunker with a computer screen behind him flashing the words CLIENT DISCONNECTED. After discovering that his life in Austin, Texas, was nothing more
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Por Vida (2017)
In 2035, the future of synthetic living has finally arrived, but so too has the threat of a global machine war. Rising Hollywood star Sepideh Ahmadi never imagined she would transition to an artificial body, but when her longtime girlfriend Natasha develops a terminal illness, the choices become clear: either
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Perion Synthetics (2014)
Welcome to Perion City, home to the largest beta test ever conceived. Though its roughly half a million residents all consider themselves human, nearly a third live with the knowledge that they were not born... they were manufactured. Sava Kessler has spent almost a decade protecting the public image of
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Veneer (2011)
In the 22nd century, augmented reality is no longer a novelty, but rather a way of life for citizens of Easton. Children are taught at a young age to control the ubiquitous layer of reality known as veneer through a process called reconciliation. Those who learn to reconcile live in
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Xronixle (2007)
When X discovers that his long distance relationship with C is about to end, he copies her mind and loads her into a virtual avatar in the Net. But in his haste to preserve his high school sweetheart, X forgets to program the one feature he ends up needing most:
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Short Stories

Guardian Angels - A Short Story (2008)

When a bomb threat shuts down the Vinestead West building in Sacramento, senior developer Rick Diaz' first thought is to head back home, but his new friend Bonnie has other ideas. From a fancy breakfast on the rich side of town to a sim parlor in the tech mecca of Umbra, Bonnie shows Rick that there's more to life than writing code for a ruthless conglomerate. And though Rick is able to forget about his overbearing wife and thankless job for a little while, the passage of the Guardian Angel Bill overshadows the day. The requirement of every newborn and naturalized American to be implanted with Vinestead's Guardian Angel biochip doesn't sit well with a lot of people, including Bonnie.

Where will the day end? In the arms of the strange woman he just met that morning? Or on the battlefield in the new war against Vinestead?

Featuring: Rick Diaz, Kaili Zabora

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