Liza lives in her 20x20 flying capsule. Liza’s life takes place inside Net City, like everyone else’s, with their fake avatars and the fake world around them. they’re so used to their virtual reality, that meeting someone for real is a nightmare. After meeting her virtual boyfriend outside Net City, she’s so shocked by how he is, to break up with him, until she finds out he died, and that’s when the nightmare she’s been living in unravels itself page after page. She meets other real people, the first one is an old schoolmate, trying to solve the mystery of her boyfriend’s sudden death and suspicious death. Did someone kill him? Could system, the computer overlooking over everyone’s life in their perfect capsules be behind it? Everything is revealed slowly in the Capsule, this fascinating dystopian novel by Olga Loukianova.
I didn’t read a book that made me feel this way since the time of Orwell’s 1984: claustrophobic, controlling, devastating. I liked both novels, although of the former I only remember the sensations it gave me. The Capsule, Olga Loukianova was capable to describe a future that may not be so far and is not that different from the one we are living today. People are lost in their mobile devices, in a virtual life, forgetting that outside there’s a world worthy of their attention. A world we’re neglecting and destroying day after day. If you want to have a feel of what humanity is becoming, then you absolutely must read this book. And the last few pages with the final twist are totally unexpected.
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