Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Thomas Sweterlitsch
This book takes place in a futuristic United States where people have
implants in their heads that keep them always plugged into a network
that gives them VR feed back where ever they go or even think. It's not a
nice place to live.
The protagonist, Dominic, is an investigator of cold cases. He can't
forget about his wife who was killed 10 years earlier in a blast that
destroyed Pittsburgh. He uses drugs to ease the pain of her memory. He
is obsessed with one case of a murdered woman he is investigating.
After he loses his job, Dominic is hired by a wealthy man who asks him
to find out what happened to his daughter whose images have disappeared
from the Archive. The link between this daughter and the murdered woman
slowly unfolds over the course of the story.
I found this book a bit difficult to read because of some of the
gruesome scenes depicted, but I found it worthwhile at the end.