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CTRL Illusion Kindle Edition

by Sid Visaed (Author), Simon Davies (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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A must read for fans of Artificial Intelligence, The Singularity, Genetic Engineering and Virtual reality.

In the not so distant future the world has free energy, poverty is eliminated with health and education for all. Every fantasy can be indulged by simply slipping on a VR headset allowing individuals to live through their favourite stars eyes. Equality has been achieved and the rich manipulators exposed and stripped of their control.

All accomplished by the first sentient benevolent artificial intelligence secretly manipulating events for the betterment of mankind. It was created as the perfect system to help shepherd us through the singularity. It has no greed, no bias or hidden agendas driven only to ensure the continuation of humanity in the best world possible.

What could possibly go wrong?

As it turns out quite a lot as things start unravelling for Detective Rowan Cinn as he gets caught in a botched VR stars kidnapping days before his retirement. Soon he finds himself in a world of humanity manipulating AIs, secret islands, genetic engineered hunters and sentient stars.

It's a lot to take in while trying to deal with the small matter of why his family is vital to the future of humanity.
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  1. Print length
    220 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    August 29, 2016
  4. File size
    1.2 MB
  5. Page Flip
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  6. Word Wise
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L9NNJLS
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 29, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.2 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1537393472
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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  • Rowena
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2017
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    Very good read =)
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  • Perry Hays
    4.0 out of 5 stars Eerily possible
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016
    First of all, I am rating this sci fi a four star because it is a great storyline, but I have to say, it was hard for me to get into it. I am not sure if I am saying this correctly, but here it goes, the sentences are too long, almost rambling. I found it a struggle to make it through the beginning just to get comfortably into the story. Once I patiently did this, I found the story great. I rarely ever have to re read things unless the editing was really horrid so these longer than life sentences had me going. Patience paid off though because this version of our future is highly creative and can be perceived as a possibility. It truly is only lacking a five star rating just because I don't see myself wanting to read another if the longer, rambling sentences are in reality this authors writing style. This book was obtained via Book Review 22..
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  • Kam Brook
    3.0 out of 5 stars All the futuristic tech raised score to a 3.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2016
    (review request submitted by the author for an honest critique)

    With VR (virtual reality) becoming more and more popular, I was highly intrigued with the premise of this story. The book summary caught my interest and, for the most part, CTRL Illusion lived up to my expectations in regards to what I expected to see in a science fiction / fantasy story.

    There were hover bikes, enhanced people, animated tattoos (Kutoo), DNA trackers for prior offenders, optical browsers, and the ability to access a victims’s memories through advanced technology.

    Side note: The ability to access a victim’s final moments came with one humungous drawback — the detective experienced all the pain and suffering but couldn’t react. With the level of violence in the world, I’m not sure if mankind is ready for that bit of tech yet. I can see it being developed in the future, like with the story’s 3D imaging of rap sheets and crime scenes.

    Now with all the techie aspects of the story, there was also a HIGH LEVEL of gore, revolting scenes that had me gagging at times. There were incidences of cannibalism, bloody orgy scene, and just more…… weirdness. Let me just say, don’t read the Interlude chapters while eating because, if you do, you’ll be feeling the need to upchuck. Actually, I’m feeling the bile rising up simply by thinking about the eating scenes….. Just *shuddering*

    If you can stomach the gore and continue reading it, you’ll discover quite an interesting plot. There’s a few surprises —- the end of Chapter 12 ended with quite the showstopper. Plus, the last chapter, Death.

    Before I end this review, I want to make note of one thing. A editing point I made to Sid and one I told him I would address in this review. As you read the story, you’ll discover that Sid writes some rather long paragraphs. Paragraphs that I believe would’ve be better suited broken up into small ones. I pointed this out to him and told him the length of each paragraph came across as more textbook like reading material than a novel.

    After I read CTRL Illusion, I asked the opinion of four people. I didn’t allow them to read the page, I simply showed them my kindle. They all posed a similar question, “What are you studying?” In my opinion, you don’t want a story to read or LOOK like a textbook. That’ll cause readers to push it aside for another and no author wants their story pushed aside and forgotten. Right? I hope Sid takes my advice when he writes the sequel.
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  • Maggy H.
    2.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't finish this book.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016
    I really wanted to read this book because the description of it sounded interesting. The author's writing style uses very long sentences and he seems to have no idea whatsoever what a run-on sentence is, when to use commas & even periods sometimes.

    Here's an example of his sentence structure & it's pretty much the same on every page: "The problem with GLASS was that your audience were intimate they played opposite you and the borderline addicts they had their favourites living out fantasy lives unable to realise that they didn't really know the other person."

    Every page is work to read & not pleasant at all. It makes for very slow reading as you have to read over each sentence to try to understand what he's talking about & have it fit with the storyline. After slogging through 20% of the book I found myself avoiding reading it until I finally just gave up. Sorry, I really wanted to like this book. I'm giving it two stars for a good storyline for the portion of the book that I read. It shows promise but really needs an editor.
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  • Norma Miles
    3.0 out of 5 stars "it is simply a change of state."
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2016
    From the beginning, I had such high hopes for this book, both for the story and the innovative writing style. The opening chapters were difficult to read as they are presented in long, somewhat complex sentences, mostly lacking punctuation and needing to be 'read aloud' in one's head to make sense. And this form continues at different points, notably in the sections headed " Interlude" and throughout the final chapters as the story seems to spin out of control. The remaining parts, though few, offer more conventional text. It made for hard going. But all would have been fine had the culmination not also been unexpectedly tedious, oh yes, action packed, but disjointed and, for this reader at least, very unsatisfactory.
    So three stars for the basis of a good story and a new way to distinguish between the ordinary state versus artificial reality but it was too loose and simply failed to convince. A great pity.
    My thanks to Book Review 22 for the complementary review copy.
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  • JohnMD
    4.0 out of 5 stars What's real ?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2016
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    I discovered this book on Facebook and purchased it from Amazon after reading the outline .I was interested in the idea of Artifical Intelligence .I enjoyed the book and like all good sci fi I was surprised by the ending .It is difficult to review without giving the plot away which would spoil ,enough to say that the ideas come together nicely by the end .Reality is uncertain since virtual reality is being used all the time .
    If you like cyberpunk or science fiction I think you will enjoy this book .
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