Dreamspace: Escape C19

by Bennett Joshua Davlin

Overview

China entombed the world. Now humanity found an escape. BY 2059 Chinese manufacturing pollution triggered the worldwide flood predicted to last 7,000 years. Plagued with COVID-19 and restricted within flood-walled-zones, humanity prepares to perpetually online on Dreamspace, a digital diversion platform that's as real as life. To play the perpetual game, users must first find a compatible game-mate in the dating module. Once merged, the couple's minds are immersed online permanently gaming with each other, while their offline bodies are maintained in medical body-vaults.Before the worldwide drop, FCC Web Agent Ray Kemper must solve the murder of a beta-tester who may have met his killer on Dreamspace's dating module. The web agent must date the anonymous users his victim dated in their exclusive worlds, luring each into a digital-kiss to unmask their identity and catch his real-world killer.The mystery unravels as the detective falls for a suspect who could be the love of his life or the end of it, forcing him to question whether our species is worth saving if doing so means giving up the very thing that makes us human.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781735873633
Publisher:	3210 Films LLC
Publication date:	10/15/2020
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Born in South Central Louisiana, Bennett Joshua Davlin began making films at the age of five and completed his first novel at ten. He attended Semester at Sea and London's City College, graduating from Tulane University, and later attending Tulane's A.B. Freeman School of Business's graduate MBA program. Davlin was a former war correspondent in the 1990s Yugoslavian conflict, a professional mountaineer, spelunker, and a PADI professional Divemaster with expertise in cave and sunken wreck penetrations. He worked in the oilfield sector and in structured and international finance. He turned around the largest American manufacturer of high-end decorative goods, after which the policies of then-president Clinton forced him to offshore his factories to China. He lived in Hong Kong and Communist China in various periods throughout the past 30 years. Davlin became a Hollywood studio screenwriter, penning such films as the Jackie Chan blockbuster Medallion for Sony, Columbia & TriStar Pictures. He wrote the international best-selling novel Memory published by The Berkley Imprint of The Penguin Group and translated in multiple languages by Sony Books, Blanvalet, and Random House. He has been a keynote speaker at The Tennessee Williams Festival and a guest lecturer at NYU and other universities. Davlin wrote, produced, and directed the adaptation of Memory into a feature film, theatrically released worldwide by Warner Bros. and EBE. In television, Bennett and his TV producing partner, Randy Douthit, co-creator of CNN's Crossfire and Judge Judy, work on projects under a first-look deal with CBS Paramount. He is also a 2020 non-treasonous Democrat candidate for U.S. president and a government policy thinker, political, social, economic, and philosophical essayist at his site centeredamerica.com.