CyberLife Virtual Book Publicity Tour December, January and February

Join W.H. Buxton, author of the fantasy science fiction novel CyberLife (Bennett and Hastings Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5, 2011 – February 14, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About W.H. Buxton

chip and bonnie (2) Winslow Buxton is a retired Navy Commander and helicopter pilot who received his Masters of Science in Information Technology and Management from the Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. After retiring from the Navy, he worked as a Knowledge Systems Architect Consultant, helping multiple Navy and Air Force Commands initiate and develop their Knowledge Management Programs. He currently resides in Gulf Breeze, Florida with his wife, Bonnie.

CyberLife is his first novel.

About CyberLife

CyberLife Cover for Tracee Gleichner (2) The year is 2069 and Jim Murphy thinks he has the world pretty much figured out, as a Knowledge Management Consultant (whatever that is!) muddling through various technology consulting jobs. That is, until his company, SciPop Inc., assigns him to work a particularly unusual project involving the acquisition of a small backpacking and hiking services business owned by techno-hater Laura Meyers.

Jim, however, never works alone. He, like everyone else in the world, is armed with the ultimate technology super-support tool: a personalized, artificially intelligent, holographic Virtual Life form, more commonly known as a Vertal, named Jasper.

Just as Jim lives, works and socializes in the physical world; Jasper lives, works, and socializes in the Cybersphere, coexisting and coordinating on behalf of Jim with other Vertals as both navigate the world of the Cybersphere; a 24/7 on-line computer world connecting everyone to everything. Everyone uses it, but in order to use it, you need a Vertal.

Somehow, Laura Meyers has learned to exist in the Cybersphere without a Vertal, unfathomable to Jim, Jasper or anyone else at SciPop. But as Jim works the project, he soon discovers there is much more going on in the Cybersphere than SciPop’s acquisition of this small, unassuming business when Jasper suddenly goes missing. Jim discovers SciPop has a much bigger and darker plan for “Laura’s Hikes” than just a simple acquisition of one of the few non-technical companies left in existence. Much more.

Welcome to CyberLife: A weeklong initiation into the cybercentric universe of techno-biologic symbiosis which is considered by all to be perfectly organized, functional, efficient, and effective.

As long as Jim, Laura and Jasper follow the rules and regulations of SciPop.

Which, so far, they have tended not to do very well.

Book Excerpt:

Introduction

I must be dreaming. At least I think I’m dreaming.

Nope. I’m aware of myself lying in bed, so I must be somewhat awake. I glance
over at Clock—0247. I guess that’s good news since I have enough time left to actually
go back to sleep before my usual 0600 go time.

Drifting in and out of sleep can be aggravating. But drifting in and out of real and
dreamlike virtual experiences seems normal to me. Over the past twenty-one years
I’ve become comfortable with my mental and virtual wanderings, and if Clock is
right I have plenty of time to transition back and forth this morning before I activate
my internal motivation gene that will enable me to get up and earn my paycheck.
This little bit of personalized power is enough to keep me satisfied for the moment.

I don’t know if it’s normal, but I can, at least to some degree, orchestrate my
dreams when I’m in this twilight state of mind. I can’t control what my dreams are
about when I’m fully and completely asleep; no one can. But as I lie here in a quasi-
comatose meditative state enjoying a temporary unplugging, I take advantage of my
awesome talent and force the direction that my future dream may take when I do
eventually fall back asleep. Call it a gift .

Thinking of gifts: Lying here in my technology-saturated apartment, I begin to
think of something simple and happy—before I acquired all this character-building
life experience. I guess that’s a gift unto itself, but not something I want to think
about now while looking fuzzily at my darkened ceiling through half-opened eyelids.
I want to think of something better. As I have done many times before, I think
back to my eighteenth birthday, before I was hardwired in to the full-time 24-7-365
business world. Just before I got the gift of all gift s.

Engaging dream control. Disengage fact checking. Memory systems nominal.
Proceed.

Happy birthday, Jimmy.

Giveaways, Contests & Prizes!

In celebration of W.H. Buxton’s book tour, he will be appearing at Pump Up Your Book’s 1st Annual Holiday Extravaganza Facebook Party on December 16. More than 50 books, gifts and cash awards will be given away including a copy of CyberLife! Visit the official party page here!

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CyberLife Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

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Monday, December 5

Guest Blogging at Blogher

Tuesday, December 6

Interviewed at Review From Here

Wednesday, December 7

Interviewed at Broowaha

Thursday, December 8

Interviewed at Blogcritics

Friday, December 9

Book Reviewed at Bookish

Monday, December 12

Interviewed at Literal Exposure

Tuesday, December 13

Guest Blogging at Open Salon

Wednesday, December 14

Book Reviewed at The Lost Entwife

Thursday, December 15

Interviewed at Divine Caroline

Friday, December 16

Interviewed at Examiner

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W.H. Buxton’s CYBERLIFE VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on December 5 and end on February 14’12. Please contact Tracee Gleichner at tracee(at)literalexposure.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing his book. Thank you!

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