First published 2007
Jason Taverner commands the attention of thirty million viewers every night on prime time television. October 11 marks the peak of his fame and success. October 12 changes everything. Taverner awakens to discover that his celebrity status has vanished completely. Worse than becoming a forgotten has-been, he finds himself erased from existence entirely. No records prove he ever lived. No one remembers his face or his show. In this surveillance state where police monitor every citizen, lacking identity documentation equals a death sentence. Taverner scrambles to understand what happened to his life and identity. He navigates a paranoid America where informants lurk everywhere, from small-time forgers creating fake papers to pleasure workers altered by surgery. Even the all-seeing police force harbors dark secrets. Taverner races against time to solve the mystery of his disappearance while dodging the authorities who could eliminate him. His search forces him to confront the most fundamental questions about selfhood and reality.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, 20th-century, alternate-history
Vibes: dark, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, unreliable-narrator
Setting: America
Period: 20th-century
7 pages · Audio CD · Blackstone Audio, Inc.