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The afterlife is a luxury. Deletion is the price of poverty.

In 23rd-century Chicago, tech genius Mira Patel uncovers a digital ghost: the missing mind-upload of her grandfather, Gunter Holden. Gunter was a pioneer who built "Bali Hai," a virtual paradise for those seeking to cheat death. But paradise has been corrupted.

Gunter deleted himself...

“You tore the edge between heaven and earth and oh the worlds that beckoned--Gunter, what happened?”

” . . . a challenging but compelling vision of a privatized, synthetic heaven slowly eaten away by ungodly capitalism, cupidity, and the sins of its founder. . . A keen and absorbing what-if tale about VR and a digital afterlife.” -Kirkus Reviews...

Remember the mall culture? Remember Christmas Eve of 2004? Remember the hell that was unleashed?

It is 2004 and time for a great burning. An Ohio mall sits where the prison burned and prisoners perished so many years ago. Bernie summoned the hordes then and he will again.

Although he wears her grandfather’s face, Madonna, a young mall worker,...