FIC028020 FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
FIC028000 FICTION / Science Fiction / General
FIC055000 FICTION / Dystopian
Print ISBN: 978-1-941360-26-2
Digital ISBN: 978-1-941360-27-9
Paperback, 5x7 • 168 pages • Case: 68
At the mysterious research facility known only as the Casino, anyone can play Roulette, a system that pushes users’ consciousness far beyond natural human limits. But when they return to the everyday world, they struggle to function, finding their memories, their speech, and even their dreams changed beyond recognition.
Like many who have played Roulette and fallen into a state of profound dimensional dysphoria, Mara finds herself struggling to communicate with those who have not, especially her boyfriend, Arlo. As she feels him slipping away, she fights to remain connected to him and at last discovers a way to adapt to living with a divergent psyche in a linear world.
Praise for The City of Folding Faces
"In rich, lyrical language, Basu creates a metaphysical journey through mind-altering events, ethically questionable research, and an unscrupulous corporation that wants to monetize Roulette players’ memories. ... This weird but fulfilling voyage through an altered mind is just the right length to leave readers satisfied."
—Publishers Weekly
"Jayinee Basu's The City of Folding Faces enfolds you like a simulation, a hallucinatory glossolalia of futurist poetry evoking a world where the uneasy confluence of technology, art and capitalism pulls reality into new and unfamiliar shapes. Like Basu's characters, we glimpse that endlessly morphing shape with both wonder and unease, as it swarms with reflections of our own absurdist present."
—Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers
This is a sometimes challenging but ultimately fascinating return to classic cyberpunk that William Gibson aficionados will love.
—Lucy Roehrig, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI for Library Journal
Once you check off the usual sci-fi boxes . . . the novel reveals itself for what it truly is: a story about how we communicate (or can’t) with the person we love the most.
—Jakob Maier for Peach Mag
"Basu’s ability to take what we know of neurodegeneration and traumatic brain injury and reimagine it echoes the early work of Mary Doria Russell."
—Bethanne Patrick for Literary Hub
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