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From multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation.

JP and Dulin have been the best of…

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1 author picked When We Were Real as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A wild fun ride through questions of identity structured as a travel tour. It’s as if we realized we were in the Matrix and someone set up tour bus vacations to see its weirdest anomalies. So fun.

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