Bøker av J. Ruth

Can you be sure of what is real?For almost seventy years Jetaru Dark has been living inside a simulation. In a cabin, deep in the Infinite Forest, she waits to awaken back into her real life.But one day two teenagers knock at her door, causing her to leave the forest and make her way to a village beside the sea; there, she comes to see that her concept of what is real and what is not, may not be accurate.This is the second book in The Variables Collection, but the collection can be read in any order.

Slipstream fiction set between 1999 and the late 2040s, Variables imagines the Universe as a computer recently set back to a restore point, to either eradicate humanity or give them a second chance.

This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.