Read this thought-provoking novella a little while back and was blown away by its quiet authority and dazzling simplicity. Something compelled me to retrieve it from the shelf today and flick through the pages, scanning, recollecting.
Set in a near future Manhattan, it explores the unthinkable: What if the digital world we've all come to rely on should fail. Here follows a short transcript.
Something happened then. The images onscreen began to shake. It was not ordinary visual distortion, it had depth, it formed abstract patterns that dissolved into rhythmic pulse, a series of elementary units that seemed to thrust forward and then recede. Rectangles, triangles, squares.
They watched and listened. But there was nothing to listen to.
Spooky, huh? I recommend you seek out this dark little gem of a story, it won't disappoint.
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