Ransom’s next novel:The Sensory DeceptionFarley Rutherford can immerse you in an animal's reality. His technology alters your senses so that you realize an animal's struggles precisely as they experience them - in both body and mind. A bear, a wolf, a hawk, or the killer app: the virtual experience of Earth's greatest predator, a sperm whale, battling the planet's most cunning hunter and elusive prey. Farley believes that understanding nature's reality will change your relationship with your planet, change your politics, maybe even convince you to join his environmentalist army. Gloria Baradaran is a scout for powerful venture capitalists. She believes that well funded, well marketed ingenuity is the only tool that can solve big problems. When she meets with Farley and his team - migraine-tortured neurologist Chopper Vittori and uber-geek engineer Ringo Hayes - she's skeptical about funding another virtual reality company but emerges from her firsthand experience of a polar bear's tragic adventure determined to raise the capital these geniuses need to fulfill the promise of nature-based virtual experience. A promise that they think can save the world from its human masters. Ringo's hardware is ready, but to transplant a whale's experience into the mind of a human requires actual sensory data. Growing desperate as the VC firm leans on them to produce mainstream apps - war games, sports, even porn - Farley finds himself aboard the Cetacean Avenger with a radical environmentalist where he has to make a deal with Somali pirates to gain access to the sperm whale he calls Moby Dick.The Sensory Deception is a 105,000 word eco/techno-thriller that takes the reader from Silicon Valley to the Horn of Africa to the rainforests of Brazil. At the climax, the protagonist must choose between his highest goals, his closest friend, and the woman he loves.Synopsis:Litquake-2011 ReadingExcerpts. . ."The Humbling of Earth's (Second) Greatest Predator," sPARKLE & bLINK, Vol. 2.9, October, 2011.
Ransom’s next novel:
The Sensory Deception
Farley Rutherford can immerse you in an animal's reality. His technology alters your senses so that you
realize an animal's struggles precisely as they experience them - in both body and mind. A bear, a wolf, a
hawk, or the killer app: the virtual experience of Earth's greatest predator, a sperm whale, battling the
planet's most cunning hunter and elusive prey. Farley believes that understanding nature's reality will
change your relationship with your planet, change your politics, maybe even convince you to join his
environmentalist army.
Gloria Baradaran is a scout for powerful venture capitalists. She believes that well funded, well marketed
ingenuity is the only tool that can solve big problems. When she meets with Farley and his team - migraine-
tortured neurologist Chopper Vittori and uber-geek engineer Ringo Hayes - she's skeptical about funding
another virtual reality company but emerges from her firsthand experience of a polar bear's tragic adventure
determined to raise the capital these geniuses need to fulfill the promise of nature-based virtual experience.
A promise that they think can save the world from its human masters.
Ringo's hardware is ready, but to transplant a whale's experience into the mind of a human requires
actual sensory data. Growing desperate as the VC firm leans on them to produce mainstream apps - war
games, sports, even porn - Farley finds himself aboard the Cetacean Avenger with a radical
environmentalist where he has to make a deal with Somali pirates to gain access to the sperm whale he
calls Moby Dick.
The Sensory Deception is
a 105,000 word eco/techno-thriller that takes the reader from Silicon Valley to the Horn of Africa to the
rainforests of Brazil. At the climax, the protagonist must choose between his highest goals, his closest
friend, and the woman he loves.
Synopsis:
Litquake-2011 Reading
Excerpts. . .
"The Humbling of Earth's (Second) Greatest Predator," sPARKLE & bLINK, Vol. 2.9, October, 2011.
Synopsis
Excerpt
Reading
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