The Tarot of Alternative Truth
Zino Symons' latest novel, exclusively available on Amazon Kindle
Nothing is real when the multiverse slips out of phase. Very thin slivers of reality harbour every nightmare, perversion and pleasure. This is the multiverse of alternative truth. Everything is possible when ancient myths meet modern nightmares, where money is a virus and humans breed with intuitive robots.
Your drug addled mind is lost down a hole you can't climb out of; as the daylight fades into shadowblack, you are dragged further away from sanity through fog filled tunnels, dripping bile and oozing slime, deeper into a subterranean claustrophobia. That’s where the nightmares begin. You can't get away from Angerland.
Angerland is one of the possible realities that make up the multiverse. It has a lot in common with our world, in fact it branched away from ours around the late 1950’s/early 1960’s.
The Tarot of Alternative Truth deals with time, the nature of consciousness and reality. According to Einstein, time and space are a continuum and in quantum physics it has been shown that a new universe is born for every possibility. These two ideas describe the physical universe within which the story takes place. The landscape of the psychological universe is the living world of archetypes that is found in the collective unconscious blockchain of all sentient beings, both organic and electronic, that exists in the occult, mathematical dimensions that support the four dimensions of spacetime.
The story explores the post-modern, post-truth world that is in some ways technically more advanced than ours, but in other ways is still in the mediaeval era as science merges with magic. The post-truth world has become so unreal that monsters and mythological beings from the collective unconscious begin to invade the world of objective reality.
(I started this project during the summer of 2016, following the referendum to leave the European Union, which I was and still am, 100% against. However, as an ex-pat at the time, I wasn’t given a say in the outcome, having been disenfranchised by the coalition government. Is that democracy? I hardly think so. A democratic state is one in which the governed play a part in the making of the laws that govern them. As a person who is affected by the laws made by the UK government, I should have had a say in the making of those laws, as should everyone who was an EU citizen at the time of the referendum, regardless of where they happen to be living, because Britain’s exit from the EU has consequences for all EU member states and their citizens. In other words, the referendum, far from being the will of the people, was an undemocratic outburst in which a noisy minority managed to gain the upper hand over a largely disenfranchised majority. Zino@intermittentbrainwaves.com)
Nothing is real when the multiverse slips out of phase. Very thin slivers of reality harbour every nightmare, perversion and pleasure. This is the multiverse of alternative truth. Everything is possible when ancient myths meet modern nightmares, where money is a virus and humans breed with intuitive robots.
Your drug addled mind is lost down a hole you can't climb out of; as the daylight fades into shadowblack, you are dragged further away from sanity through fog filled tunnels, dripping bile and oozing slime, deeper into a subterranean claustrophobia. That’s where the nightmares begin. You can't get away from Angerland.
Angerland is one of the possible realities that make up the multiverse. It has a lot in common with our world, in fact it branched away from ours around the late 1950’s/early 1960’s.
The Tarot of Alternative Truth deals with time, the nature of consciousness and reality. According to Einstein, time and space are a continuum and in quantum physics it has been shown that a new universe is born for every possibility. These two ideas describe the physical universe within which the story takes place. The landscape of the psychological universe is the living world of archetypes that is found in the collective unconscious blockchain of all sentient beings, both organic and electronic, that exists in the occult, mathematical dimensions that support the four dimensions of spacetime.
The story explores the post-modern, post-truth world that is in some ways technically more advanced than ours, but in other ways is still in the mediaeval era as science merges with magic. The post-truth world has become so unreal that monsters and mythological beings from the collective unconscious begin to invade the world of objective reality.
(I started this project during the summer of 2016, following the referendum to leave the European Union, which I was and still am, 100% against. However, as an ex-pat at the time, I wasn’t given a say in the outcome, having been disenfranchised by the coalition government. Is that democracy? I hardly think so. A democratic state is one in which the governed play a part in the making of the laws that govern them. As a person who is affected by the laws made by the UK government, I should have had a say in the making of those laws, as should everyone who was an EU citizen at the time of the referendum, regardless of where they happen to be living, because Britain’s exit from the EU has consequences for all EU member states and their citizens. In other words, the referendum, far from being the will of the people, was an undemocratic outburst in which a noisy minority managed to gain the upper hand over a largely disenfranchised majority. Zino@intermittentbrainwaves.com)
