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Editorial Review For Babylon Dreams
In Babylon Dreams, the story arrives as a chain of
messages and memory records tied to an after death VR world first known as Bali
Hai, later tangled up in corporate and cult control. Byron Hernandez, a private
investigator and descendant of Thomas Bucklin, tries to access frozen records
while SEINI blocks communication and leans on the Virtual Bill of Rights. The
material he does get centers on Gunter Holden, a founder figure in the after
death industry, and on Thomas, his companion and later revealed biological
brother. The plot turns on mergers, legal pressure, and mass erasures,
including the deletion of Virtual Paris and thousands of residents. Running
through it all is the self deletion system called Babylon Dreams, staged as a
state fair and roller coaster where desire can tip into erasure, even when the
place looks like cotton candy and neon.
The book’s big strength is its format. It lets the world
explain itself through requests, warnings, and logged experiences, so the
reader keeps assembling the truth the way Byron does. Another strength is how
it makes the ethical questions feel personal. Gunter carries grief for Laura,
fear of impulses, and shame about earlier deletions tied to tainted software,
and those private wounds sit right beside board deals and legal maneuvers. The
self deletion ride is also a smart invention. It turns an abstract idea into a
place you can hear and walk through, complete with sims, ticket lines, and a
sign that shouts welcome while people quietly fall apart. And yes, the book
even drops a wet pants confession, which is an efficient way to puncture any
founder mythology before it gets too comfy.
Genre wise, this fits techno thriller and dystopian science
fiction, with a focus on corporate power, digital rights, and the price of
paradise sold as a product. It also plays in the digital afterlife lane, where
memory, consent, and identity become assets that other people try to trade.
Readers who like stories about virtual worlds with rules,
logs, and consequences will have a good time here. If you enjoy piecing
together events from documents, and if you can handle themes tied to suicide
and mass death, this will land. Fans of stories that mix grief with systems and
lawsuits will also click with it, since the personal drama never stops being
part of the machinery.
If you want a VR afterlife tale that argues with itself in
public records while still letting people bleed in private, pick up Babylon
Dreams.