More Perfect
The Circle meets Inception in this moving exploration of tech and connection.
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
"What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It’s like waking up for the first time ever. It’s like waking up with a third eye."
When Moremi connects her brain to the Panopticon, a network which allows you to see inside the minds and dreams of others, she believes that it will save her from depression, loneliness and, eventually, death. That is until she meets Orpheus.
Orpheus was brought up in isolation by a Neo-luddite father. He was raised to question everything, including the government who plan to make the connection procedure compulsory.
They promise that connecting everyone to the Panopticon will end human suffering and usher in a more perfect world. But when Orpheus and Moremi uncover the dark side of the technology, they find themselves on opposite sides of a radical divide, between those who believe that the Panopticon will save humanity, and those who will stop at nothing to destroy it.
The Circle meets Inception in an immersive and futuristic story that explores love, loneliness and the limits of technology’s ability to save a humanity who might not want to be saved.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Oh (Do You Dream of Terra Too?) loosely riffs on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in this clever, if slightly overwrought, sci-fi thriller set in a near-future London, where Pulse, a brain implant, allows people to live and work in an augmented reality, but also grants the government unprecedented control over citizens. Moremi, an aspiring dancer, can't wait to get a Pulse, which she believes will cure her loneliness. Meanwhile, Orpheus's off-grid life takes a devastating turn when his enigmatic father (who claims he has found a way to "defeat death") is killed by security officers who inform Orpheus that his dad was secretly a terrorist associated with an organization of "neo-Luddites." There's a lot of backstory to get through, and both Moremi's obsession with love and Orpheus's desperation to escape into the Pulse's vivid dreams make the first half drag, but their meeting and subsequent romance tempers the protagonists into more enjoyable characters. The mythological inspiration is slight, but it comes to the fore when Moremi and Orpheus become wrapped up in a political conspiracy and Orpheus discovers more unsettling truths about his late father. Dystopian fans will appreciate Oh's incisive and nuanced take on technology's place in society.
