Based on Jungian symbology, THE KINGDOM OF NOD (102,000-word adult science fiction) is for readers who crave the trippy lucid dreams of INCEPTION, the boundless immersive adventures of WESTWORLD, and the creeping technological horror of BLACK MIRROR.
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Since her father’s stroke, Seph Singleton’s kinda-famous machine-learning developer career has taken a backseat to her role as his primary-caregiver. Now, she’s putting any future career, her relationship, and possibly her father’s life on the line when she recklessly infuses him with Nanozoa, a swarm of self-replicating robotic drones smaller than a blood cell, hoping to repair his damaged brain.
But when it works, none of that matters.
When Dad recovers, he starts hacking the swarm’s operating system, leveraging the Nanozoa to develop a revolutionary device-less computer platform inside his skull. Unfortunately, while he’s super-charged his mind, his aging body’s still dying. When he dies, his upgrades to the NanozoaOS become the object of a tech-bro bidding war.
The winner, a VR gaming billionaire, tasks Seph to build on her dad’s code to create the ultimate virtual adventures through shared dreaming. It works like a charm, except Seph is seeing her father in her dreams. Is he alive?
She doesn’t have time to solve that puzzle because, unexpectedly, shared dreaming taps into humanity’s collective unconscious, unleashing a darkness that grows more ominous as more people share their dream adventures.
When her husband, her friends, and the leader of the free world become trapped within their darkest nightmares, it’s up to Seph, with a possible assist from beyond the grave, to confront their fears and return them to the waking world.
