Hobo Signs

Remold Jaka has created the ultimate game. Called the Wholack Game, it is considered a heaven. A place where nothing can be denied and everything can be had. A game so immersive it changes the face of human endeavor. We've become a society where every right has been privatized, and every service has a cost. There is no right or wrong. Everyone is born an outlaw.

The impacts of law, the enforcement of justice, equal rights, medical care, fire protection, food, water, and everything else are moneymaking schemes to enter the nirvana of Wholack. Everything costs because everyone wants to get into the game called Wholack. For those that risk and lose it all--those that cannot afford the basic human rights package--there is FairGame. A set of parks where the only law is survival. The reaches of civilization stop at its boundaries. Even the Hunters that enter the FairGame preserves have no law to protect them. The Hobos certainly do not. The closest entities to law are the FairGame Administrators. A deadly job, with one advantage: a quick route into Wholack.

Remold is a man caught in success, a fool. He cannot assist the forces that seek to end the game, nor can he cope with the wreck of civilization that exists on Earth. Ending the game would put over a billion people back onto a planet that is more jungle than home, but it might end FairGame.

Or have we been looking at the wrong signs?

Perhaps it is all not as pointless as it once appeared.



The fourth book of the quadrology that includes The Galileo Syndrome, The Fires of Home , and The Dirties, Hobo Signs clarifies and declares the nature of this good universe.