Escape

Philip Richards wants more from life - a lot more. More love. More adventure. More meaning. He experiments with reality itself in his search for fulfilment but, crippled by his own fears, he seems caught in a never-ending cycle of attempt and failure. Lines of reality blur. Dream, fantasy, cyberspace. Perceptions of the material world. True or false or endless maybe. Philip comes to harsh conclusions about himself and his place in society. He sees what's holding him back but not what...
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Philip Richards wants more from life - a lot more. More love. More adventure. More meaning. He experiments with reality itself in his search for fulfilment but, crippled by his own fears, he seems caught in a never-ending cycle of attempt and failure. Lines of reality blur. Dream, fantasy, cyberspace. Perceptions of the material world. True or false or endless maybe. Philip comes to harsh conclusions about himself and his place in society. He sees what's holding him back but not what to do about it. For a while he's lost in the depths of depression. He seeks escape. He makes desperate decisions but then, when the spectre of finality rises before him, he re-emerges for one last attempt to take it all.ESCAPE is a work of speculative fiction that plays at fusing different genres. Widely scattered historical settings, legal drama, science of the future, mythological fantasy, surreal interludes. The story is told against a backdrop of different worldviews and different perceptions; at times, well within the artificial structures of civilization; at times, pushed to the edge of savagery; at times, lost in the wilds of the imagination. ESCAPE entertains many questions as the characters try to determine what is real and what is not. What should society be? What is consciousness? What does it mean to be human?