About Future Shop by Gideon Burrows
What if you were offered an easier, cheaper and quicker way to do the family shop?
Rosa Bodran is in a rush as usual.
The ferocious weather is doing everything it can to prevent her getting on with her day.
Then she’s made an offer she can’t refuse. A virtual reality shopping experience.
The man promises it will be quicker.
He assures her it will be cheaper.
He tells her it will be more convenient.
It seems the perfect solution to picking her kids up on time, despite the freezing hail and wind.
But all is not as it seems.
The weather is a portent of something more terrible to come. Virtual reality becomes the least of Rosa’s challenges.
It could put everything she cares for at risk.
Would you take the virtual reality shop?
Or is it best to just say no?
Dive into this futuristic thriller, and face some of the deepest questions about what you want your future to look like.
From the award winning author of Portico and The Illustrator’s Daughter, comes a short book that shows this challenging writer at the cutting edge of what he does.
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Author Bio:
Gideon Burrows is an award winning fiction and non-fiction writer.
He is author of the Who’s In Control? series of novels, which aim to challenge the reader into considering what they would do in a terrifying or challenging situation. They include The Spiral, The Illustrator’s Daughter, Portico, and Future Shop. He’s currently working on the fifth book in the series.
Gideon was semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards for his social media thriller Portico, and winner of the Writing Magazine Self Published Book Award for his first non-fiction book, Men Can Do it: Why Men Don’t Do Childcare.
You can join his mailing list and download the free book, Martin & Me, a difficult tale of a personal relationships, spying and the arms trade.
Age 13, Gideon thought he was going either going to be a writer or a ninja. His parents bought him a typewriter rather than a set of nunchucks, so that was that decided.
He trained as a journalist and spent 10 years writing for major UK newspapers and magazines.
Under a pen name, Gideon has a series of ninja themed action novels. His knowledge of the ancient ninja path may yet prevail…