Virtually Afterlove

The contemporary epistolary Virtually Afterlove series touches on the philosophical ideas of imagination itself, the seldom explored overlap of the web culture and the subjective views of the afterlife. The real side of the story, which is set in our own digital future, leaves us wondering what it means to love a person who is not really there and whether an attempt to escape one's own heart can be ultimately successful. The first book of the series, Leo's Coffenscape, borders on the edge of life and death itself. The saga begins when a young gamer operating under the nickname Leo spills his heart on the role-playing message board of 2005. His painful tale ends in the most dramatic of manners - a poetic virtual suicide. He finds supporters in his fellow users, who take him on a creative journey of their own vision for the afterlife in an attempt to pick the lock to the shackles of his unrequited love. The pain proves too strong and Leo disappears, lost in the darkness of time. However, his story lives on in a stark reminder of our own digital permanence. Thirty years later, users of the same forum seek out the continuation of his adventures. An old forum netizen, Protomorph, brings forth the posts that he had saved from the original thread. What happened to Leo and his love since those fateful posts, three decades ago? The story shifts perspectives and creates new lead characters with new players, some of who do not wish for both the imagined and the real story to have a happy ending. Written with a convention-shattering narrative in an exploration of multiple genres of fiction, Igor Waver spins a deep and richly-layered story that drips with self-imposed, introspective conflict from every page. Take a leap of hope into a meta-verse with a story that warns us of the insanity that comes with a love for a near complete stranger. Is there a life after love? "Online Book Club Review" - 4 out of 4 stars "Plot-wise, the novel blew my mind. There's another word I'd like to use but it'd be inappropriate."