Bash Bash Revolution, Douglas Lain
Bash Bash Revolution, Douglas Lain
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Bash Bash Revolution

Author: Douglas Lain

Narrator: Scott Merriman

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/27/2018


Synopsis

A compelling coming-of-age artificial intelligence novel from Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author Douglas Lain.

Seventeen-year-old Matthew Munson is ranked thirteenth in the state in Bash Bash Revolution, an outdated video game from 2002 that, in 2017, is still getting tournament play. He’s a high school dropout who still lives at home with his mom, doing little but gaming and moping. That is, until Matthew’s dad turns up again.

Jeffrey Munson is a computer geek who’d left home eight years earlier to work on a top secret military project. Jeff has been a sporadic presence in Matthew’s life, and much to his son’s displeasure insists on bonding over video games. The two start entering local tournaments together, where Jeff shows astonishing aptitude for Bash Bash Revolution in particular.

Then, as abruptly as he appeared, Matthew’s father disappears again, just as he was beginning to let Jeff back into his life.

The betrayal is life-shattering, and Matthew decides to give chase, in the process discovering the true nature of the government-sponsored artificial intelligence program his father has been involved in. Told as a series of conversations between Matthew and his father’s artificial intelligence program, Bash Bash Revolution is a wildly original novel of apocalypse and revolution, as well as a poignant story of broken family.

About Douglas Lain

Douglas Lain is the author of Billy Moon and After the Saucers Landed, the editor of two speculative fiction anthologies, In the Shadow of the Towers and Deserts of Fire, and the publisher of Zero Books, which specializes in philosophy and political theory. He hosts the Zero Squared podcast, interviewing a wide range of fascinating and engaging people with insights for the new millennium. Lain lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Francisco on February 28, 2018

Bash Bash Revolution is in many ways the antithesis of 'Ready Player One'. Instead of video games and nostalgia combining to form an oasis worth defending from those who would control it, here they combine into the most dangerous trap. Bash Bash Revolution tells the story of a recent High School drop......more

Goodreads review by Ian on June 01, 2018

I read Bash Bash Revolution a couple of days after seeing Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One (based on Ernest Cline’s novel). As a result, my thoughts about Lain’s book are, to a meaningful degree, informed by my impressions of the movie. It’s no great insight to say that Ready Player One is a love......more

Goodreads review by Josh on May 30, 2018

A surprisingly fun read which mixes multiple utopian and dystopian visions through video gaming. The ultimate theme is the ultimate end of society, the singularity/Armageddon/communism. Of course, it comes about through video gaming in virtual reality and augmented reality as an AI produced by the g......more

Goodreads review by Sid on March 28, 2019

Artificial technology and virtual reality are advancing every day and some predict that society will be living in a game and no one will live in real life. This is the future that Douglas Lan explains in his novel, Bash Bash Revolution. This story is about a high school dropout named Matthew Munson,......more