Ursula Poznanski
Cryptos
12/08/2020
448 Pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-7432-0050-0
Hardcover
19,95 € (D)
20,60 € (A)
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Where do we go when Nowhere is the only destination left?
• CliFi Thriller(Climate Fiction): Climate change & virtual reality
• For fans of Black Mirror (Netflix)
• All age readers
• Strong, female protagonist
• Highly relevant topicKerrybrook is Jana‘s favourite virtual escape. An idyllic fishing village with beautiful nature and, every now and then, a breeze of fresh air from the nearby sea. Jana, is this world‘s designer and person in power, she’s satisfied with her masterpiece. Best job so far.
Until one day, a dead body is found, in both, ’Virtual Reality‘ and the real world. In times of climate change, VR is the only safe place for humankind. That‘s why Jana needs to solve the crime, she’s responsible for stopping the destruction.WHITE RAVENS recommendation (2021):
"In the not too distant future, the world is an inhospitable place: droughts, storms, floods. That’s why
world designers construct »alternative realities«, such as landscapes populated by dinosaurs, life at court in the Middle Ages, and surfing and chilling out on a beach. People can switch between these
worlds at will and, when they die there, they are not truly dead; instead, they merely return to the »real
world« – same as at night when they sleep. Then they are reunited with their body, which is lying inside a capsule.In »Cryptos«, Ursula Poznanski pulls out all the stops of storytelling: She embeds numerous references to human and intellectual history in an action-packed and extremely suspenseful thriller
plot. In the process, she raises central existential and ontological questions that result from the interplay between the real and the virtual worlds. This complex dystopian novel is narrated in such an enjoyable
way that readers will hardly notice their brains going into overdrive as they devour it."
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Ursula Poznanski
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Ursula Poznanski is one of the most successful German-language authors of books for young adults. Her debut Erebos, published in 2010, received numerous awards including the German Youth Literature Prize) and made the author internationally famous. Her books can regularly be found at the top of ...
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