Realtime Interrupt

REALITY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE . . .

Who was he?

Sitting on a bed, he didn’t know where he was. He had the strange feeling that the walls around him were just stage props, with nothing behind. He turned as a man came through the door and said, “Good monring, Joe. How are you feeling today?” So his name was Joe?

Where was he?

With his garden tools, he prepared to plant a vegetable patch. But when he turned over the first fork of soil, there was nothing underneath—just empty blackness. . .

What was he?

He looked in the mirror and his jaw fell. He was twelve years younger and much leaner. This was insane. . . .

“No one is more adept at combining the techno-thriller format with sophisticated science fictional concepts than James P. Hogan.” —Rave Reviews

Paperback

Cover art by Patrick Turner

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First Baen printing, August 2000

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ISBN: 0-671-57884-7

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