Backpacker's Guide to the Maldives

A Fantasy Journey

von Jonathan Price

350 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

When pedantic insurance claims assessor Barnaby Finch's meticulously ordered Surrey life is summarily deleted by an intergalactic municipal bypass error, he finds himself thrust into a universe far more absurd, litigious, and infuriating than any suburban council meeting. Rescued by Luna Vane, a weary, grease-stained field researcher, Barnaby learns that Earth was merely an unallocated residential parcel scrubbed to clear the server cache. Fleeing through a cosmos monetized into an all-inclusive, soul-crushing resort network, Barnaby must navigate predatory billing algorithms, existential luggage, and a pan-galactic bureaucracy that monetizes human misery at an hourly rate.His reluctant odyssey escalates when he crosses paths with his estranged daughter, Random, a temporal-rift teenager who has outsourced her self-worth to an omniscient social algorithm. Pursued by the fanatical Krikkit-Resorters-a genocidal tourist militia intent on freezing the multiverse into an exclusive private holiday estate-Barnaby, Luna, and a hollowed-out influencer named Jax Flash are forced to rely on Barnaby's ultimate weapon: unyielding, weaponized British suburban grievance. Armed with a dented thermos, a brass spirit level, and an ironclad understanding of statutory notice periods, Barnaby takes on the corporate architects of reality.The crisis reaches its breaking point in the server core of Isla-Metropolis, where an errant cocktail triggers a catastrophic hard reboot across all dimensions. As star systems and unpaid bills unravel into raw hexadecimal code, the survivors tumble into the maintenance sub-basement to confront Dave from Yorkshire, the cosmos's solitary IT administrator. Facing a total factory reset, Barnaby and his ragtag companions must make their final escape into a virgin, unformatted void-free from algorithms, push notifications, and roaming charges-where existence can finally be lived without an invoice.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174812499
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published