The Market

Virtual reality has always been a disappointment. InThe Market, a lucid dreaming drug called Zephyr allows the user to feel, in hi-fidelity, the sense memories of people who have gone through intense experiences. Any experience can be captured by a quick blood draw soon after it occurred. Naturally, this is exactly the kind of addictive drug that draws the attention of drug cartels. The Market's fast-paced story follows Liam and Joelle, a young couple drawn into...
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Virtual reality has always been a disappointment. InThe Market, a lucid dreaming drug called Zephyr allows the user to feel, in hi-fidelity, the sense memories of people who have gone through intense experiences. Any experience can be captured by a quick blood draw soon after it occurred. Naturally, this is exactly the kind of addictive drug that draws the attention of drug cartels. The Market's fast-paced story follows Liam and Joelle, a young couple drawn into the underworld of Zephyr drug manufacture, only to find themselves desperate to get out, with their gangster bosses unwilling to release them from the cartel because their blockbuster love affair, now public as a Zephyr, becomes wildly popular among Zephyr users.

The Market depicts the impact of how a lucid dreaming drug would disrupt individual lives and society as a whole. The Market provides incisive analysis of celebrity culture and the nature of Zephyr addiction. In the spirit of novels by Michael Crichton and Neal Stephenson, The Market is a page-turner that is difficult to put down.