Exit to Reality
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Seal Press (WA)
- Publish date: 04/03/1997
-- Melds a love story, a fast-paced adventure, and a sophisticated futuristic landscape reminiscent of the writings of Ursula LeGuin and William Gibson
-- "Forbes ... displays a gift for the critical detail, elegant description, and quiet yet evocative character portrayal..". -- Kirkus Reviews
Imagine a world where poverty, disease, crime, war, pollution, and family dysfunction have all been eliminated. In Exit to Reality, Edith Forbes takes readers a thousand years into the future to a world where every source of human misery has been overcome.
Exit to Reality is the compelling tale of Proteus and Euclid and their techno-age romance, which begins as an e-mail romance and leads to a Paris rendezvous and an uncommon affair. Having inhabited the same body for hundreds of years, Proteus adopts the habit of morphing into different body types, ages, and animals to express himself as a sentient, vital being and leave behind a culturally induced techno-stupor. In an age where reality is completely structured by computers and technology. Proteus provokes Euclid to examine her regimented life as well as the family values of a world where everyone has an electronic Mom (Maternal Operations Module) and Pop (Paternal Oversight Program) to take care of their every need.
In Exit to Reality, Forbes raises provocative questions about the nature of humanity in a virtually run world.
"Edith Forbes has written an absorbing, fully limned world that chills, provokes, and poses unsettling questions for readerly contemplation. Each book she's written has been a leap beyond thewell-done book before it. Exit to Reality is a millennial leap in more ways than one -- and is a remarkable achievement". -- Rick Simonson, Elliot Bay Book Company
