Introduction
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Blurb
A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution.
For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ubik, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Evangelion.
Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing technology turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe.
Thrust into reconstructions of his memories exploded from the fragments that survived the blast, Fox tries to rebuild his life, his marriage and himself. But he quickly realises his world is changing, unreliable, and echoing around itself over and over.
As he unearths endless cycles of meeting Gabe, falling in love and breaking up, Fox digs deep into his past, his time in the refugee nation of Aaru, and the exact nature of his relationship with Khadija. Because, in a world tearing itself apart to forget all its sadness, saving the man he loves might be the key to saving us all…
Review
I generally love sci-fi and love stories with heavy LGBTAIAP+ presentation. I can honestly say that Welcome to Forever is a perfect combination of these. It’s dark, hopeless, emotional, raw and inspiring in equal parts. The first thing I loved was Gabe and Fox. They are painfully human with their flaws, their relationship is not perfect or a fairytale but because of this it feels all the more real, and ultimately genuine.
At it’s heart Welcome to Forever is a love story about Gabe and Fox but it is so much more. There are numerous timelines or rather scenarios created by editing memories and sometimes erasing parts completely. This is another area where the novel excels since it begins to ask the question if you could forget or edit memories would you and at what point on that journey do you lose who you are and become someone else, another version of the person you once were.
The writing is beautiful and emotive. While I didn’t initially like Fox I quickly became invested in his journey and wanting to know what happened next. The plot and story are so tightly woven and while we meet multiple Fox’s and Gabe’s I never lost track of what was happening.
In short this was an amazing novel and it get’s extra points for a character sharing my name, even if she was only a side character.
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